Ranman (TV series)

is a Japanese television drama series and the 108th Asadora series, following Maiagare!. It premiered on April 3, 2023. The drama is modeled after the life of Japanese botanist Tomitaro Makino, but it is produced as fiction and is an original drama work.

Plot

Cast

Makino's family

• RyÅ«nosuke Kamiki as Mantarō Makino
• Yurito Mori as young Mantarō
• Masahito Kobayashi as 9-to-12-year-old Mantarō
• Minami Hamabe as Sueko Nishimura, Mantarō's wife
• Sakura Endō (Nogizaka46) as Chitose Makino, Mantarō and Sueko's daughter and Kotetsu's wife
• Kōdai Matsuoka as Momoki Makino, Mantarō and Sueko's son
• Miyu Honda as Chizuru Makino, Mantarō and Sueko's youngest daughter
• Keiko Matsuzaka as old Chizuru

Mineya people

• Yui Sakuma as Aya Makino, Mantarō's sister
• Jun Shison as Takeo, son of the clerk of the sake brewery "Mineya"
• Show Kasamatsu as Kōkichi, a brewer at "Mineya"
• Riho Nakamura as Tama, a maid at "Mineya"
• Ryōko Hirosue as Hisa Makino, Mantarō's mother
• Keiko Matsuzaka as Taki Makino, Mantarō's grandmother

Kochi version

• Wakako Shimazaki as Kie Kusuno, a civil rights movement supporter
• Yasufumi Terawaki as Rankō Ikeda, head of the academic institution "Meikyoukan"
• Dean Fujioka as Tengu / Sakamoto Ryōma
• Mamoru Miyano as Itsuma Hayakawa, a freedom and civil rights activist in Kochi
• Ryudo Uzaki as Nakahama Manjirō
• Hiroshi Miyama as Gihei Hamamura, owner of "Sengokuya", a kimono merchant in Kochi

Tokyo version

• Riho Makise as Matsu Nishimura, Sueko's mother
• Mansaku Ikeuchi as Bunta Abe, confectioner at Hakubaido
• Aoi Nakamura as YÅ«ichirō Hirose, Mantaro's schoolmate who working in the Ministry of Engineering.
• Seiichi Tanabe as Motoyoshi Noda, a botanist
• Seikō Itō as Yoshio Satonaka, a botanist

related persons the restaurant “Misato”

• Emma Miyazawa as Mie Kasazaki, Sueko's aunt and Matsu's sister
• Sarutoki Minagawa as Yanosuke Iwasaki, an industrialist
• Koen Kondo as Tadanori Onda, an army colonel
• RyÅ« Morioka as Keiichi Aijima, Ministry of Communications Railway Agency bureaucrat
• Sōma Suzuki as Michinari Kakegawa, a politician

The University of Tokyo Persons

• Jun Kaname as Akihisa Tanabe, a founding professor of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
• Tetsushi Tanaka as Seiichi Tokunaga, an associate professor at the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
• Hiroki Konno as Shozaburo Ōkubo, an Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
• Kou Maehara as Yasuhisa Hatano, an student in the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
• Mizuki Maehara as Jiro Hujimaru, an student in the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
• Hiroshi Yamamoto as Hideyoshi Mimasaka, a professor at the University of Tokyo

Jiitoku row house

• Shunsuke Daito as Hayato Kuraki, former elite samurai
• Riko Narumi as Ei Kuraki, Hayato's wife
• Tetsuhiro Ikeda as Fukuji Oikawa
• Tamae Ando as Rin Eguchi, manager of Jutoku Nagaya
• Kasumi Yamaya as YÅ« Usami, maid at small restaurant
• Tatsuya Yamawaki as Jōnosuke Horii, a failed student who attends the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo.
• Takashi Sumida as Ushikutei Kyubei, a storyteller who lives in Jutoku Nagaya.

Ohata Printing Office

• Eiji Okuda as Gihei Ōhata, factory owner of Ohata Printing Office
• Mayu Tsuruta as Ichi Ōhata, Gihei's wife
• Meimi Tamura as Kayo Ōhata, Gihei and Ichi's daughter

People around Sueko

• Kanata Irei as Masanori Takatō, former Satsuma samurai businessman
• Ariei Umefune as Yae Takatō, Masanori's wife
• Takeshi Kongochi as Kashima, Masanori's secretary
• Ananda Jacobs as Clara Lawrence, Sueko's music and dance teacher
• Seina Nakata as Satoko Tanabe, Akihisa's wife, Sueko's friend
• Atsuko Fukuda as a maid of the Tanabe family

People of Shibuya

• Tateto Serizawa as Satarō Aratani, The owner of the pub "Aratani".
• Masayo Umezawa as Kane Aratani, Satarō's mother
• Jun Inoue as Hiroshi Sato,"Kōbō-yu" owner
• Noriko Iriyama as Toyoka, former Yanagibashi geisha
• Rion Misaki as Hazuki, former Yanagibashi geisha
• Naoto Kaihō as Ichizo Kobayashi, an industrialist
• Zen Ishikawa as Ryōtarō Saeki, a senior government official
• Ichirō Mikami as Eiken Shirakawa, former councillor
• Mizuki Machida as Masamune Nasukawa, director of the Japan Orchestra Association

Others

• Daisuke Ono as Sengokuya
• Hisahiro Ogura as Nakao, a pawn shop owner
• Kazu Murakami as Matsuya
• Masahiro Sato as Ikedaya
• Satoshi Hashimoto as Mori Arinori, first Minister of Education, a benefactor of Akihisa Tanabe

• Yasuyuki Sakai as a doctor
• Nasubi as a package delivery man
• Naomasa Musaka as Isobe, a debt collector
• Tatsuomi Hamada as Kotetsu Yamamoto
• Kokoro Terada as young Kotetsu
• Taishi Nakagawa as Tōru Nagamori

TV schedule

References

External links

• Official website