Yell (エール) is a Japanese television drama series and the 102nd Asadora series, following Scarlet. It premiered on March 30, 2020 and concluded on November 27, 2020. It was the first Asadora to be recorded in 4K, and the first since Musume to Watashi to be broadcast in only five 15-minute episodes per week Monday through Friday, with omnibus airings on Saturday mornings instead of a fresh episode.
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Cast
Koyama's family
Masataka Kubota as Yūichi Koyama (based on Yūji Koseki)
Sera Ishida as young Yūichi
Toshiaki Karasawa as Saburō Koyama, Yūichi's father
Momoko Kikuchi as Masa Koyama, Yūichi's mother
Takara Sakumoto as Kōji Koyama, Yūichi's brother
Morio Kazama as Mohei Gōndō, Yūichi's uncle and Masa's older brother
Sekiuchi's family
Fumi Nikaidō as Oto Sekiuchi, Yūichi's wife (based on Kinko Koseki)
Kaho Shimizu as young Oto
Ken Mitsuishi as Yasutaka Sekiuchi, Oto's father
Hiroko Yakushimaru as Mitsuko Sekiuchi, Oto's mother
Rena Matsui as Gin Sekiuchi, Oto's older sister
Toito Honma as young Gin
Nana Mori as Ume Sekiuchi, Oto's younger sister
Chise Niitsu as young Ume
Fukushima people
Ikusaburō Yamazaki as Hisashi Satō, Yūichi's classmate and childhood friend (based on Hisao Itō)
Taiki Yamaguchi as young Hisashi
Aoi Nakamura as Tetsuo Murano, Yūichi's classmate and childhood friend (based on Toshio Nomura)
Taiga Komie as young Tetsuo
Naotarō Moriyama as Kiyoharu Tōdō, Yūichi's school teacher
Daichi Sugawara as Takahiko Ōgawara, the owner
Shin Shimizu as Hiroto Kuwata, the shop clerk
Taketo Tanaka as Shizuo Oikawa, the shop clerk
Kawamata people
Kazuyuki Aijima as Gorō Ochiai, a bank branch manager
Satoru Matsuo as Renpei Suzuki, a bank clerk
Keiko Horiuchi as Shōko Kikuchi, a bank clerk
Ayumu Mochizuki as Kanda Matsuzaka, a bank clerk
Mayu Hotta as Suzu
Tokyo people
Arata Furuta as Homare Hatsukaishi, the company's director
Yojiro Noda as Masato Kogarashi, a composer (based on Masao Koga)
Kayano as Akane Sugiyama, the company's secretary
Tooru Nomaguchi as Tamotsu Katori, the owner
Riisa Naka as Megumi Katori, Tamotsu's wife
Ken Shimura as Kōzō Oyamada (based on Kosaku Yamada)
Ko Shibasaki as Tamaki Futaura (based on Tamaki Miura)
Takahiro Miura as Takashi Tanaka
Nozomi Inoue as Fujimaru, a singer (based on Otomaru)
Hayato Kakizawa as Tarō Yamafuji, a singer (based on Ichirō Fujiyama)
Mayuko Kominami as Chizuko Natsume
Production
On April 1, 2020, NHK announced that filming schedules for both Kirin ga Kuru and Yell were cancelled until April 12 to consider the safety of performers and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. By April 7, NHK extended the cancellation of shooting for both series after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proclaimed a one-month state of emergency for Tokyo and other prefectures. The series was resumed on September 14, 2020.
