Details
Title: エンジン
Title (English): Engine
Genre: Love, comedy
Episodes: 11
Viewership ratings: 22.42
Broadcast network: Fuji TV
Broadcast period: 2005-Apr-18 to 2005-Jun-27
Air time: Monday 21:00
Theme song: I Can See Clearly Now by Jimmy Cliff
Insert song: Angel by Aerosmith
Synopsis
Jiro Kanzaki is an F3000 test driver blessed with acute sensitivity and breathtaking driving techniques. He's a daredevil who feels no fear driving at speeds that even top racers dare not attempt. But unexpected trouble forces this world-famous racer to leave his team and return to Japan for the first time in years. Until he finds a new job as a racer, Jiro decides to stay with his parents. What awaits Jiro there is his hardheaded father, his nagging sister, the 12 children of the foster home his father runs, a snobbish male nurse, and a stubborn female nurse who likes to daydream about her life.
Jiro's return home brings a breath of fresh air that influences the people around him. However, he is still unaware that he too will eventually be influenced to change the way he thinks and lives. -- Fuji TV
Cast
Kimura Takuya as Kanzaki Jiro
Koyuki as Mizukoshi Tomomi
Sakai Masato as Torii Motoichiro
Matsushita Yuki as Kanzaki Chihiro
Harada Yoshio as Kanzaki Takeshi
Takashima Reiko as Ushikubo Eiko
Izumiya Shigeru as Ichinose Chinsaku
Okamoto Aya as Suenaga Tamaki
Kadono Takuzo as Haruyama Mario
Aoki Shinsuke as Sugawara Hiroto
Ishigaki Yuma as Ibuki Tetsuya
Kokusho Sayuri (Harumi's mother)
Shimada Kyusaku (Daisuke's father)
Asaka Mayumi (Daisuke's mother)
Seto Yoichiro guest
Miura Mayu (ep10)
Miyata Daizo (ep11)
The Children of Kaze no Oka Home
Ueno Juri as Hoshino Misae
Toda Erika as Hida Harumi
Kaho as Ninomiya Yukie
Ishida Hoshi as Shioya Daisuke
Ohira Natsumi as Taguchi Nao
Arioka Daiki as Sonobe Toru
Nakajima Yuto as Kusama Shuhei
Kosugi Moichiro as Hirayama Morio
Sato Miku as Sonobe Aoi
Hirota Ryohei as Tone Akira
Komuro Yuta as Kanemura Shunta
Oka Mayu as Komori Nanae
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Inoue Yumiko
Producers: Makino Tadashi (牧野正), Iwata Yuji
Directors: Nishitani Hiroshi, Hirano Shin
Music: Kanno Yugo
Awards
45th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress: Koyuki
9th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (2005-06): Best Drama
