Details
Title: 演歌の女王 (えんか の じょおう)
Title (romaji): Enka no Joou
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Comedy
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 9.1
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-13 to 2007-Mar-17
Air time: Saturday 21:00
Theme song: Kimi no Suki na Toko by Hirai Ken
Synopsis
Himawari is an unsuccessful 39-year-old enka singer who has bad luck with men and money. Born into an Osaka takoyaki shop, the young Himawari was inspired by her father's words to immerse herself in enka. At the age of 13 her father disappears and her mother, bitter over the husband that left her, remarries--but Himawari has trouble adjusting to a new father and brother. With her father's words in her head--"You're the #1 singer in all of Japan!"--Himawari immediately heads to Tokyo after high school and makes her debut as an enka singer.
Cast
Amami Yuki as Ookochi Himawari
Harada Taizo as Tamaru Hitoshi
Sakai Wakana as Ichijo Masami
Narumi Riko as Gomi Sadako
Kikawada Masaya as Nobutomo Katsuya
Hirayama Hiroyuki as Yazawa (bento shop manager)
Takei Akashi as Hanada Shin
Takahata Atsuko as Nobutomo Hoshie
Hankai Kazuaki as Shida
Fukuda Mayuko as Nobutomo Sachiko
Nukumizu Youichi as Nukumizu Keiji
Danta Yasunori as Hagimoto Jiro
Ikeuchi Junko as Tamaru Michiyo
Hada Michiko as Koda (Hitoshi's high school classmate) (ep1)
Nishiyama Mayuko as Hanada Kyoko (Shin's mother) (ep2,9)
Murai Katsuyuki (村井克行) as Hanada Ryoichi (ep2,9)
Okouchi Hiroshi (大河内浩) (ep3)
Sasaki Hikari (佐々木ひかり) (ep3,10)
Itoh Sairi (ep3,10)
Yanagita Erika (ep3,10)
Oshikawa Daisuke (押川大輔) (ep3,10)
Kitou Utano (鬼頭歌乃) (ep3,10)
Kajiwara Hikari (梶原ひかり) (ep3,10)
Kakuike Erina (角池恵里菜) (ep3,10)
Takasugi Mizuho as Sachiko's stepfather (ep4,5)
Matsukawa Naruki (ep5)
George Yamamoto (山本譲二) as himself (ep6)
Haba Yuichi (ep6)
Yajima Kenichi (ep7)
Nakajima Hiroko (ep7)
Nishioka Tokuma (ep9)
Kamata Atsushi (鎌田篤) (ep10)
Yanagiya Yuka (柳谷ユカ) (ep10)
Shigatani Yui (志賀谷ゆい) (ep10)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Yukawa Kazuhiko
Producers: Ohira Futoshi, Oota Masaharu (太田雅晴)
Directors: Ootsuka Kyoji, Iwamoto Hitoshi, Kiuchi Taketo (木内健人)
Music: Ike Yoshihiro
