Omusubi (Japanese: おむすび) is a Japanese television drama series and the 111th Asadora series, following The Tiger and Her Wings.
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Plot
Born in the first year of Heisei (1989), Yui Yoneda was influenced by the somewhat outdated Gyaru culture during her high school years. Despite her aspiration to become a nutritionist, she never forgets her Gyaru spirit and navigates through the Heisei era with determination.
Cast
Yoneda family
Kanna Hashimoto as Yui Yoneda. She experienced the Great Hanshin earthquake during her childhood and later moved to Fukuoka. Her nickname is Omusubi.
Ameri Isomura as young Yui
Riisa Naka as Ayumi "Ayu" Yoneda, Yui's sister
Saki Takamatsu as young Ayumi
Yukiya Kitamura as Masato Yoneda, Yui's father
Kumiko Aso as Aiko Yoneda, Yui's mother
Yoshiko Miyazaki as Kayo Yoneda, Yui's grandmother
Ken Matsudaira as Eikichi Yoneda, Yui's grandfather. He is a big fan of the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks.
Chise Niitsu as Hana Yoneda, Yui and Shoya's daughter
Ririsa Miyazaki as young Hana
Yotsugi family
Hayato Sano as Shoya Yotsugi, Yui's husband
Wakana Sakai as Sachiko Yotsugi, Shoya's mother
Takaya Yamauchi as Takanori Yotsugi, Shoya's father
Yui's high school friends
Araki Sugō as Yota Koga
Leo Matsumoto as Ryosuke Kazami
Shuri Nakamura as Emi Miyazaki
Hakata Gyaru union
Mirichamu as Ruri "Lurie" Mashima
Misaki Tanifuji as Tamako "Tamatchi" Sato
Natsumi Okamoto as Suzune "Suzurin" Tanaka
Meimi Tamura as Risa "Risapon" Yuzuki
People of Kobe
Naoto Ogata as Takao Watanabe
Miyu Oshima as Maki Watanabe, Takao's daughter
Midoriko Kimura as Misae Sakuma
Shin'ya Niiro as Takeo Wakabayashi
Katsunori Uchiba as Yoshizo Takahashi
Takashi Utsumi (Milk Boy) as Akira Ōsaki
Hideaki Okajima as Yasuhiko Fukuda
Rena Matsui as Mika "Chanmika" Aihara
Shima Tabata as Natsumi Sakuma
Kobe Nutrition College
Maika Yamamoto as Sachi Yabuki
Yuna Taira as Kasumi Yugami
Shinya Kote as Manabu Morikawa
Saki Aibu as Machiko Sakuraba
Long Mizuma as Jōji Ishiwatarari
People of Itoshima
Shinnosuke Ikehata as Himiko
Wataru Ichinose as Yuma Sasaki
Shinobu Hasegawa (Sissonne) as Tamotsu Matsubara
Yumi Wakatsuki as Ikumi Igarashi
Haruka Kodama as Sayaka Kawai
Akimasa Haraguchi as Seiya Kusano
Goriken as Takeshi Koga
Yu Saito (Parachute Butai) as Shinsuke Ōmura
Kunihiro Suda as Kōhei Ide
Butch as Kyōsuke izukaI
Kenji Tanaka as a master of ceremonies
Rio Teramoto as Asuka Ōkōchi
Hoshikawa Electric Baseball Club
Mandy Sekiguchi as Ryuji Sawada
Yasuhito Shimao as Shigeharu Nakamura, the team manager
Hiroki Miyake as Shusaku Tatekawa, a nutritionist
Riku Hagiwara as Naoya Haraguchi, a nutritionist
Narumi as Ikuyo Okubo
Ema Maeno as Akane Tanaka
Osaka Shin-Yodogawa Memorial Hospital
Mari Hamada as Fumika Tsukamoto
Fu Hinami as Miwa Kuwahara
Atsuhiro Inukai as Satoshi Sugisawa
Munenori Nagano as Eito Matsuzaki
Nagiko Tsuji as Akari Shinomiya
Kana Shimazui as Riko Kakinuma
Takeaki Yoshida as Taku Ishida
Tōru Baba as Naohisa Morishita
Anne Nakamura as Reina Kamata
Takuya Inoue as Haruya Inoue
Others
Wataru Ichinose as Yuma Sasaki
Kenshiro Kawanishi as Matsumoto, a sportswriter
Norika Fujiwara as Sayuri Saijo
Naomi Watanabe as Akipi
Alice Hiyama as Marie Sone
Keisuke Yamauchi as himself
Ruy Ramos as himself
Yumi Asō as Shigeko Mukai
Gaku Hosokawa as Takahiro Maruo
Miyu Oshima as Uta Tahara, a girl who closely resembles Maki
Production
NHK offered the role of Yui, the heroine, to Kanna Hashimoto. However, as her schedule was already full with the London performances of the stage play Spirited Away and filming for the sequel of the Kingdom movie series, her agency initially planned to decline the offer. Nevertheless, NHK promised to make every effort to accommodate her existing commitments, and they eventually reached an agreement.
The supporting cast includes many actors and comedians with connections to Fukuoka.