Dragon Zakura (TV series)

, also known as Dragon-Zakura, is a Japanese live action television series based on the manga of the same name.

Cast

Teachers

• Hiroshi Abe as Kenji Sakuragi, a lawyer and the homeroom teacher for the special class
• Kyōko Hasegawa as Mamako Ino, an English teacher from RyÅ«zan High School. She takes care of History lessons for the special class.
• Yōko Nogiwa as Yuriko Tatsuno, the director of RyÅ«zan High School and the wife of former owner
• as Tokihisa Kondō, the vice-principal of RyÅ«zan High School.
• David Ito as Masanao Ochiai, a teacher from RyÅ«zan High School
• Tōru Shinagawa as Tetsunosuke Yanagi, the Mathematics teacher for the special class
• Minori Terada - RyÅ«zaburō Akutayama, the Japanese language teacher for the special class. His name is a comical reference to RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa.
• Susumu Kobayashi as Shutaro Ain, the Science teacher for the special class
• Akio Kaneda as Hiroshi Kawaguchi, the English language teacher for the special class
• Shin Yazawa as Nozomi Yamamoto, Mamako's friend and a teacher of ShÅ«meikan High School.

Students of the special class

• Tomohisa Yamashita as YÅ«suke Yajima
• Masami Nagasawa as Naomi Mizuno
• Teppei Koike as Hideki Ogata
• Yui Aragaki as Yoshino Kōsaka
• Akiyoshi Nakao as Ichirō Okuno
• Saeko as Maki Kobayashi

Family members of special class students

• Mako Ishino as Setsuko Yajima, YÅ«suke's mother
• Jun Miho as YÅ«ko Mizuno, Naomi's mother
• Kei Sunaga as Kōsei Ogata, Hideki's father
• Tomoko Aihara as Mariko Ogata, Hideki's mother
• Yōko Kurita as Megumi Kōsaka, Yoshino's mother
• Kazuko Katō as Miyako Okuno, Ichirō's mother
• Momosuke Mizutani as Jirō Okuno, Ichirō's twin brother. He is a student of ShÅ«meikan High School)
• Nobue Iketani as Mitsue Kobayashi, Maki's mother

Other students of Ryūzan High School

• Akari Hori as Asumi Toda, an idol who repeatedly sends Maki e-mails from her workplace
• Ayano Gunji as Saori Abe, Naomi's friend. She had requested Naomi to introduce her to YÅ«suke

Others

• Hiroki Murakami as Yoshio Tanaka, one of Nozomi's suitors. He is a law graduate of Tokyo University. An arrogant man, he is proud of his academic and social standing even though he is neither handsome nor fit.
• Mitsuru Karahashi as Yasushi Sawamatsu, the second suitor of Nozomi. A high school dropout, he is rather simple-minded with "awesome" as his favorite phrase and a very limited vocabulary. His favorite pastime is playing Pachinko and he only has a part-time job.

Episodes

Theme song

The theme song of the show is "Realize" by melody. and the insert song "Colorful" by Tomohisa Yamashita.

References

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