Nobuta wo Produce (2005)

Title: 野ブタ。をプロデュース / Nobuta wo Produce
English Title: Producing Nobuta
Format: Renzoku
Genre: School drama
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 16.89
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2005-Oct-15 to 2005-Dec-17
Air time: Saturday 21:00
Directors: Iwamoto Hitoshi, Sakuma Noriyoshi
Screenwriter: Kizara Izumi
Original writing: 『野ブタ。をプロデュース』 by Shiraiwa Gen
Theme song: 修二と彰 – 青春アミーゴ (Shuuji to Akira – Seishun Amigo)

Synopsis: Kiritani Shuji is the popular guy who gets along with everyone, from the jerks to the nerds to the just plain weird. The one person Shuji cannot stand is Kusano Akira. To Shuji, Akira is just plain annoying. He laughs, talks and acts funny. Things heat up when a new student comes to school. Her name is Kotani Nobuko, a girl who has no self confidence at all and is content at being made fun of and bullied in school. Shuji and Akira come to an accord that in order to make use of their "youth" they will "produce" Nobuko as the next popular girl. One of the conditions, however, is that nobody should find out that they are working together as a team to make this concept possible. Unveiled here is the story of true friendship between three unlikely candidates who would not have been friends if not given the special circumstances.

Cast:
* Kamenashi Kazuya as Kiritani Shuji
* Yamashita Tomohisa as Kusano Akira
* Horikita Maki as Kotani Nobuko
* Toda Erika as Uehara Mariko
* Ukaji Takashi as Kiritani Satoru
* Fukaura Kanako as Kiritani Nobuko
* Nakajima Yuto as Kiritani Koji
* Okada Yoshinori as Yokoyama Takeshi
* Kimura Yuichi as Sebastian
* Fuwa Mansaku as Iehara Yasuo
* Takuma Seiko as Kuroki Hiroko
* Imawano Kiyoshiro as owner of the Gooyoku diner
* Takahashi Katsumi as Hirayama Ippei
* Natsuki Mari as Catherine
* Yanagita Erika

Class 2B (name register order):
* Hiiragi Rumi as Kasumi
* Tanoue Naoki (田上尚樹) as Akaishi
* Tajima Honami (田島穂奈美) as Misa
* Wakaba Ryuuya as Shittaka
* Yamane Kazuma as Bunta
* Miyazawa Mai (宮沢麻衣) as Koishi
* Iida Takaaki (飯田貴昭) as Kawai
* Tate Mayuko (楯真由子) as Kimura
* Suetaka Tomu (末髙斗夢) as Kondo
* Akiko as Nami
* Kawaguchi Wataru (川口渉) as Tôdai
* Miura Aoi as Takada
* Daito Shunsuke as Tani
* Hirose Tsuyoshi (広瀬剛進) as Tezuka
* Takase Yukina as Numata
* Natsuko as Nomura
* Saito Yuino (斉藤友以乃) as Hashimoto
* Watanabe Keisuke (渡辺敬介) as Hasegawa
* Mizuta Fumiko (水田芙美子) as Bando
* Toyooka Takeshi (豊岡武士) as Fukuura
* Tatsumi Natsuko as Miyasato
* Tatsuzawa Masaaki (立澤真明) as Yazawa
* Eric Masahira (エリックまたひら) as James
* Masujima Ryoko (増島綾子) as Hitomi
* Ishii Tomoya as Yoshida
* Furuhara Yasuhisa (古原靖久) as Takuzo
* Wakusawa Miku (涌澤未来) as Chie
* Ihata Juri (ep1-5)
* Tomikawa Kazuhito (ep3)

Awards:
* 47th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Drama
* 47th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actor: Kamenashi Kazuya
* 47th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress: Horikita Maki
* 47th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Director
* 47th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Script
* 47th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Music
* 9th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix (2005-06): Best Actor: Yamashita Tomohisa

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