Ranman (らんまん) 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.
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Cast
Makino's family
Ryūnosuke 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 Yūichirō 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
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
Ryū Morioka as Keiichi Aijima, Ministry of Communications Railway Agency bureaucrat
Sōma Suzuki as Michinari Kakegawa, a politician
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
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