Details
Title: パズル
Title (English): Puzzle
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Mystery, comedy
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 10.2 (Kanto)
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2008-Apr-18 to 2008-Jun-20
Air time: Friday 21:00
Theme song: Moon Crying by Koda Kumi
Synopsis
Misako Ayukawa, a woman in her 30s, is an English teacher with ironically poor English skills. She values herself over her students and money over love. She displays arrogance in front of her students, but acts pleasantly around everyone else. However, Ayukawa possesses a brilliant mind for solving puzzles. Motivated by the possibility of rewards and treasure, she ends up tackling various cases on the weekends along with 3 of her top students. --Tokyograph
Cast
Ishihara Satomi as Ayukawa Misako
Yamamoto Yusuke as Imamura Shinichi
Kimura Ryo as Kanzaki Akira
Nagayama Kento as Tsukamoto Yoshio
Iwata Sayuri as Matsuo Yuko
Sato Chiaki as Takamura Michiru
Asakura Aki as Wada Hitomi
Tsujimoto Hiromasa (辻本嘉真) as Nagatsuka Kenichi
Kaneko Norihito as Oomichi Goro
Shiomi Sansei as Kamata Torahiko
Guests
Piece 1
Igawa Hisashi as Aoyagi Ryuzaemon
Saigo Teruhiko as Aoyagi Ryutaro
Jinbo Satoshi as Aoyagi Ryujiro
Oginome Keiko as Oki Tokie
Miyaji Masako as Aoyagi Kanae
Yamashita Hiroko as Aoyagi Yoshimi
Ide Rakkyo (井手らっきょ) as Oki Atsuo
Piece 2
Wakamura Mayumi as Miyabe Kimiko
Ikezu Shoko as Amano Hoshiko
Otsuru Gitan as Ozawa Takehiko
Shirosaki Jin as Tamada Kazuhisa
Kawahara Sabu as Tsuchida Shogoro
Kitayama Masayasu (北山雅康) as Ishihara Keisuke
Kubota Maki as Shimizu Eiko
Kurobe Susumu as the shinto priest
Piece 3
Ichikawa Kamejiro as Hashimoto Kenji
Yajima Kenichi as Hasegawa Haruo
Miho Jun as Kuroda Kumiko
Nishio Mari as Hiroka Keiko
Omiya Taro as Iwai Hiroshi
Asakawa Chihiro (浅川稚広) as Kawakami Sachiko
Piece 4
Kinomi Nana as Kurihara Wakaba
Saito Yosuke as Chang Linpao
Nakata Hirohisa (中田博久)as Narita Kohei
Morishita Yoshiyuki as Mizota Kenichi
Rokkaku Shinji as Okamura Shunsuke
Sakamoto Makoto as Shimura Eiichi
Fujimoto Shizuka as Koyama Maki
Kato Ryo (加藤諒) as Shirashi Kenichi
Nicholas Pettas as Michael Nicolsen
Piece 5
Yamamoto Yoko (山本陽子) as Gondo Yayoi
Sasano Takashi as Gondo Shoichiro
Kawamata Shinobu (川俣しのぶ) as Gondo Eiko
Ochi Shizuka as Fujishiro Chikako
Shibuya Kotono as Hirota Rei
Ono Atsuko (小野敦子) as Nakamura Ume
Kusamura Reiko as Gondo Fuyu
Piece 6
Minegishi Toru as Kitagata Shoichi
Anan Kenji as Kanayama Junpei
Hankai Kazuaki as Yamazagi Akira
Dan Jiro as Kurokawa Taizo
Kobayashi Ayako as Kudo Natsuko
Shoji Yusuke (少路勇介) as Nagata Toshikazu
Iijima Popopo (飯島ぽぽぽ) as Mimura Toshio
Nishida Natsumi as Nagata Miki
Yamano Fumito (山野史人) as middle-aged detective
Piece 7
Kazama Morio as Konjakute Sannosuke
Shimizu Koji as Konjakute Ichinosuke
Hamada Akira as Shinoda Kohei
Nakanishi Ryota as Konjakute Yonnosuke
Denden as Konjakute Ninosuke
Suzuki Sachiko (鈴木早智子) as Ikemura Akiko
Otake Koichi (大竹浩一) as Konjakute Shinosuke
Katsura Fukudanji (桂福團治) as Konjakute Mannosuke
Piece 8
Nakayama Shinobu as Ando Tsubaki
Wakabayashi Shiho (若林志穂) as Matsumura Ruri
Hakamada Yoshihiko as Takamine Kyoji
Koichi Mantaro as Soga Nobuo
Rokkaku Seiji as Nishino Shigeru
Nishida Ken as Sumida Tou
Piece 9
Takahashi Kaori as Kobashi Kyoko
Hayashi Yasufumi as Ichikawa Kitao
Yasoda Yuichi (八十田勇一) as Onodera Seiji
Ishizuka Yoshiyuki (石塚義之) as Kubota Shuichi
Tanahashi Nuts (棚橋ナッツ) as Oishi
Yana Nobuo (八名信夫) as Yamagami Kijuro
Piece 10
Owada Shinya as Shimabukuro Tatsuzo
Sada Mayumi as Nishino Erika
Hashimoto Satoshi as Edajima Goro
Nakamura Ikuji (中村育二) as Niwa Shuichi
Tokui Yuu as Ishido Takehiko
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Makita Mitsuharu
Producer: Shibata Satoru (柴田聡), Funatsu Koichi, Makita Mitsuharu, Sato Yoshihiro (佐藤善宏)
Chief producer: Kuwata Kiyoshi
Director: Katayama Osamu
Puzzle (2008)
