Details
Title: ヒットメーカー 阿久悠物語
Title (romaji): Hitmaker Aku Yu Monogatari
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: Biography
Viewership rating: 15.9 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast date: 2008-Aug-01
Air time: Friday 21:00 to 23:24
Synopsis
Aku Yu is considered the greatest Japanese songwriter ever. He wrote many songs that became huge hits. His songs include Pepper Keibu and UFO (Pink Lady), Kita no Shuku Kara (Harumi Miyako), and many others. This tanpatsu tells the story of his life and the many people he touched and influenced throughout the geinokai. groink
Cast
Tanabe Seiichi as Aku Yu
Oikawa Mitsuhiro as Ikeda Fumio
Ikeuchi Hiroyuki as Furuta Shinichi
Uchida Asahi as Tokura Shunichi
Kikawada Masaya as Sawai Shuhei
Sakaki Hideo (榊英雄) as Doi Hajime
Sato Mayumi (佐藤真弓) as Matsuda Toshi
Shundo Mitsutoshi (俊藤光利) as Miki Takashi
Masuda Toshiki (増田俊樹) as Nakamura Yasushi
Shishido Kai (宍戸開) as Ihara Takatada
Hoshino Mari as Yamaguchi Momoe
Hiratsuka Ami (平塚あみ) as Mori Masako
Suzuki Airi (鈴木愛理) as Sakurada Junko
Papaya Suzuki as Suzuki Hiromitsu
Natsuko and Akiko as The Peanuts
Uchiura Junichi (内浦純一) as Inoue Jun
Gotsuji Shingo (五辻真吾) as Hagimoto Kinichi
Takahashi Ai and Niigaki Risa (新垣里沙) as Nemoto Mitsuyo and Masuda Keiko of Pink Lady
Otoo Takuma as their manager
Maeda Ai as nurse
Tanaka Yoji as Gyoza store clerk
Terawaki Yasufumi as Senkosha manager
Hara Sachie
Mine Erika
Akiko
Production Credits
Screenwriters: Nojiri Yasuyuki (野尻靖之), Kaneko Shusuke (金子修介)
Producers: Takahashi Masahiro (高橋正弘), Iwama Gen (岩間玄), Tanogashira Yoichi (田之頭洋一)
Director: Jo Tomoko (城朋子)
