Teppan (TV series)

Teppan (てっぱん) is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd Asadora. It starred a new actress, Miori Takimoto,^[1] in the role of a young woman raised by an adopted family in Onomichi who learns of her real grandmother and decides to move to Osaka to start an okonomiyaki restaurant.^[2] The title word "teppan" refers to the metal surface on which okonomiyaki are cooked. The series, while interrupted by the Tohoku earthquake, averaged a 17.2% rating (in the Kanto region), making it the fourth most popular of the Asadora dramas in the previous five years.^[3]

Cast

• Miori Takimoto, as Akari Murakami, the heroine
• Narumi Yasuda, as Michiko Murakami, Akari's adoptive mother
• Ken'ichi Endō, as Jō Murakami, Akari's adoptive father
• Shingo Yanagisawa
• Toshinori Omi
• Shūji Kashiwabara
• Hidekazu Akai
• Rie Tomosaka
• Sumiko Fuji, as Hatsune Tanaka, Akari's real grandmother
• Tamao Nakamura (narrator)
• Haruka Kinami, as Tanaka Chiharu

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