Anpan (あんぱん) is a Japanese television drama series and the 112th Asadora series, following Omusubi. This drama is inspired by Nobu Komatsu, the wife of Takashi Yanase, the creator of Anpanman, but it is a fictional and original work.
Mio Imada was chosen for the lead role of Nobu Asada from among 3365 auditionees.
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Plot
Nobu Asada, who was deeply influenced by militaristic ideology, experienced the horrors of war, which completely changed her values. After the war, she and her husband, Takashi, pursued "a justice that never overturns." Takashi eventually created a masterpiece picture book.
Cast
Asada family
Mio Imada as Nobu Asada
Yuzuna Nagase as young Nobu
Ryo Kase as Yutaro Asada, Nobu's father
Noriko Eguchi as Hatako Asada, Nobu's mother
Yuumi Kawai as Ranko Asada, Nobu's sister
Sakura Yoshikawa as young Ranko
Nanoka Hara as Meiko Asada, Nobu's sister
Sae Nagatani as young Meiko
Kōtarō Yoshida as Kamaji Asada, Nobu's grandfather
Miyoko Asada as Kura Asada, Nobu's grandmother
Kanata Hosoda as Go Hara
Yanai family
Takumi Kitamura as Takashi Yanai, Nobu's second husband
Yura Kimura as young Takashi
Nanako Matsushima as Tomiko Yanai, Takashi's mother
Kazunari Ninomiya as Kiyoshi Yanai, Takashi's father
Motoki Nakazawa as Chihiro Yanai, Takashi's brother
Seigou Hirayama as young Chihiro
Yutaka Takenouchi as Hiroshi Yanai, Takashi's uncle
Naho Toda as Chiyoko Yanai, Takashi's aunt
Himari Hitomi as Shin Uto
Kokura regiment
Satoshi Tsumabuki as Shinnosuke Yagi
Eita Okuno as Manzo Kamino
Shun'ya Itabashi as Riki Baba
Ryosuke Hagiwara as Tetsu Koda
Kento Sakurai as Kota Konno
Yukito Hidaka as Arata Meguro
Hiroki Usudaira as Yasuo Kabata
Shunsuke Tanaka as Masaki Kasuya
Eiji Yokota as Senkichi Shima
Kōchi Shimpō
Kenjiro Tsuda as Akira Shoji
Yui Narumi as Kotoko Oda
Yuki Kura as Shinji Iwashimizu
Nomura Manzo IX as Ryo Kirishima
Koji Furukawa as Izuru Torii
Riku Kashima as Tatsuya Midorikawa
Takuya Wakabayashi as Seizo Aoki
Others
Sadao Abe as Sōkichi "Uncle Yam" Yamura, a baker
Fumiya Takahashi as Kentaro Karashima, Meiko's husband
Sara Shida as Usako Ogawa
Sonim as Mimi Yamashita
Kumi Takiuchi as Yukiko Kuroi
Koichi Yamadera as Haruto Zama
Motoki Ohmori (Mrs. Green Apple) as Takuya Ise. He is modeled after Taku Izumi
Soua Ogura as Manpei Katsura
Sumi Shimamoto as Kako Ode
Satoru Saito as Tenpo, a monk
Tomohiro Ichikawa as Katsuo Kijima
Noritaka Hamao as Iwao Tagawa
Ayumu Nakajima as Jiro Wakamatsu, Nobu's first husband
Misuzu Kanno as Setsuko Wakamatsu
Ryūsei Nakao as Tokizo Furuyama
Keiko Toda as Tetsuko Maki
Masatoshi Kihara as Norio Sera
Gordon Maeda as Osamu Tejima, a manga artist. He is modeled after Osamu Tezuka
Shiori Kubo as Tamae Shiratori, a singer. She is modeled after Mariko Miyagi
Ryohei Odai as Degawa
