Chimudondon

Chimudondon
Original title	ちむどんどん
Genre	Drama
Written by	Daisuke Habara
Directed by	Takafumi KimuraTakehiro MatsuzonoRyohei Nakano
Starring	Yuina Kuroshima Yukie Nakama Nao Omori Ryo Ryusei Haruna Kawaguchi Moka Kamishiraishi Hio Miyazawa Yuki Yamada Goki Maeda Kazuhiro Yamaji Kaho Takada Hairi Katagiri Kenjiro Ishimaru Masanobu Takashima Tsurutaro Kataoka Mieko Harada
Narrated by	Jon Kabira
Opening theme	"Sansan" by Daichi Miura
Composers	Keiichi OkabeRyuichi TakadaKeigo Hoashi
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	125
Production
Executive producer	Shunsuke Kawaguchi
Producers	Yukako TakahashiYasunori Matsuda
Running time	15 minutes
Production company	NHK
Original release
Network	NHK
Release	April 11 (2022-04-11) –September 30, 2022 (2022-09-30)

Chimudondon (ちむどんどん) is a Japanese television drama series and the 106th Asadora series, following Come Come Everybody. It premiered on April 11, 2022, and concluded on September 30, 2022.

Plot

Cast

Higa's family

• Yuina Kuroshima as Nobuko Higa^[1]
  • Kurumi Inagaki as young Nobuko
• Yukie Nakama as Yūko Higa, Nobuko's mother^[2]
• Nao Omori as Kenzō Higa, Nobuko's father^[2]
• Ryo Ryusei as Kenshū Higa, Nobuko's brother^[2]
  • Daiji Asakawa as young Kenshū
• Haruna Kawaguchi as Ryōko Higa, Nobuko's eldest sister^[2]
  • Kino Tsuchiya as young Ryōko
• Moka Kamishirashi as Utako Higa, Nobuko's younger sister^[2]
  • Aio Fuse as young Utako

Okinawa people

• Hio Miyazawa as Kazuhiko Aoyagi, Nobuko's childhood friend and newspaper reporter^[3]
  • Kanau Tanaka as young Kazuhiko
• Yuki Yamada as Hiroo Ishikawa, Ryōko's friend^[3]
• Gōki Maeda as Satoru Sunagawa, tofu shop owner's son^[3]
• Kazuhiro Yamaji as Zenichi Maeda, village only shop's owner^[3]
• Kaho Takada as Sanae Maeda, Zenichi's daughter^[3]
• Hairi Katagiri as Kyōko Shimoji, Nobuko's high school music teacher^[3]
• Kenjiro Ishimaru as Kenichi Higa, Nobuko's relative^[3]
• Daichi Watanabe as Kingo Kina^[3]
• Hitomi-kyan as Aunt Aragaki^[3]
• Michiko Ameku as Aunt Amuro^[3]
• Shigeyuki Totsugi as Fumihiko Aoyagi, Kazuhiko's father^[3]

Tokyo people

• Kai Inowaki as Nobuko's senior working at Italian restaurant^[4]
• Marie Iitoyo as Ai Ōno, Kazuhiko's colleague and lover^[4]
• Aimi Satsukawa as Kiyoe Ino^[4]
• Takashi Yamanaka as Jinnai Tarashima, Kazuhiko's boss^[4]
• Takeo Nakahara as Tomohiro Ino, Kiyoe's father^[4]
• Mieko Harada as Fusako Ōshiro, Italian restaurant owner^[4]
• Masanobu Takashima as Kōji Futatsubashi, Italian restaurant head chef and Nobuko's boss^[4]

Tsurumi people

• Tsurutaro Kataoka as Saburō Taira, president of Okinawa Kenjinkai^[4]
• Satomi Nagano as Tae Taira, Saburō's wife^[4]
• Hayato Fujiki as Junji Kaneshiro, boarding house landlord^[4]

References

1. 日本放送協会. "《2022年度 前期》連続テレビ小説ヒロイン・黒島結菜 ／ 作・羽原大介 2022年度前期 連続テレビ小説「ちむどんどん」". NHK_PR (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-04-13.
2. 日本放送協会. "2022年度前期 連続テレビ小説「ちむどんどん」新たな出演者発表～ヒロイン・暢子の家族～". ドラマトピックス (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
3. 日本放送協会. "2022年度前期 連続テレビ小説「ちむどんどん」新たな出演者発表～ヒロイン・暢子が沖縄で出会う人々～". ドラマトピックス (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-04-13.
4. 日本放送協会. "2022年度前期 連続テレビ小説「ちむどんどん」新たな出演者発表～ヒロイン・暢子が、東京そして鶴見で出会う人々～". ドラマトピックス (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2022-04-12. Retrieved 2022-04-13.

External links

• Official websiteArchived 2022-06-18 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)