Dragon Zakura (TV series)

Dragon Zakura
Poster
Genre	School drama
Written by	Takehiko Hata
Directed by	Renpei Tsukamoto, Marehiro Karaki, Takashi Komatsu
Starring	Hiroshi Abe
Theme music composer	Kyo Nakanishi
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	22
Production
Editors	Kouichi Enda, Mayumi Shimizu
Production companies	Media Mix Japan Co., Ltd, TBS
Original release
Network	TBS
Release	July 8 (2005-07-08) – September 16, 2005 (2005-09-16)
Related
Master of Study

Dragon Zakura (ドラゴン桜), also known as Dragon-Zakura, is a Japanese live action television series based on the manga of the same name.

Cast[edit]

Teachers[edit]

• Hiroshi Abe as Kenji Sakuragi, a lawyer and the homeroom teacher for the special class
• Kyōko Hasegawa as Mamako Ino, an English teacher from Ryūzan High School. She takes care of History lessons for the special class.
• Yōko Nogiwa as Yuriko Tatsuno, the director of Ryūzan High School and the wife of former owner
• Yôsuke Saitô [ja] as Tokihisa Kondō, the vice-principal of Ryūzan High School.
• David Ito as Masanao Ochiai, a teacher from Ryūzan High School
• Tōru Shinagawa as Tetsunosuke Yanagi, the Mathematics teacher for the special class
• Minori Terada - Ryūzaburō Akutayama, the Japanese language teacher for the special class
• Susumu Kobayashi as Shutaro Ain, the Science teacher for the special class
• Akio Kaneda as Hiroshi Kawaguchi, the English language teacher for the special class
• Shin Yazawa as Nozomi Yamamoto, Mamako's friend and a teacher of Shūmeikan High School.

Students of the special class[edit]

• Tomohisa Yamashita as Yūsuke Yajima
• Masami Nagasawa as Naomi Mizuno
• Teppei Koike as Hideki Ogata
• Yui Aragaki as Yoshino Kōsaka
• Akiyoshi Nakao as Ichirō Okuno
• Saeko as Maki Kobayashi

Family members of special class students[edit]

• Mako Ishino as Setsuko Yajima, Yūsuke's mother
• Jun Miho as Yūko Mizuno, Naomi's mother
• Kei Sunaga as Kōsei Ogata, Hideki's father
• Tomoko Aihara as Mariko Ogata, Hideki's mother
• Yōko Kurita as Megumi Kōsaka, Yoshino's mother
• Kazuko Katō as Miyako Okuno, Ichirō's mother
• Momosuke Mizutani as Jirō Okuno, Ichirō's twin brother. He is a student of Shūmeikan High School)
• Nobue Iketani as Mitsue Kobayashi, Maki's mother

Other students of Ryūzan High School[edit]

• Akari Hori as Asumi Toda, an idol who repeatedly sends Maki e-mails from her workplace
• Ayano Gunji as Saori Abe, Naomi's friend. She had requested Naomi to introduce her to Yūsuke

Others[edit]

• Hiroki Murakami as Yoshio Tanaka, one of Nozomi's suitors. He is a law graduate of Tokyo University. An arrogant man, he is proud of his academic and social standing even though he is neither handsome nor fit.
• Mitsuru Karahashi as Yasushi Sawamatsu, the second suitor of Nozomi. A high school dropout, he is rather simple-minded with "awesome" as his favorite phrase and a very limited vocabulary. His favorite pastime is playing Pachinko and he only has a part-time job.

Episodes[edit]

Theme song[edit]

The theme song of the show is "Realize" by melody. and the insert song "Colorful" by Tomohisa Yamashita.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Doragon-zakura at IMDb