is a 2015

Japanese television drama , also called , are television programs that are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, jidaigeki, thrill ...

based on the manga written by Esusuke Kuroe about a samurai who time-travelled 150 years to modern day Japan. The series was broadcast by

TV Asahi JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as (also known as EX and and stylized as TV asahi), is a television station that is owned and operated by the subsidiary of certified broadcasting holding company , itself controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Com ...

from 13 October to 11 December 2015.

Plot

While committing ''

seppuku , sometimes referred to as hara-kiri (, , a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour but was also practised by other Japanese peop ...

'' during the

Bakumatsu was the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended. Between 1853 and 1867, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji governme ...

period in Japan,

Takechi Hanpeita , (October 24, 1829 – July 3, 1865), also known as , was a samurai of Tosa Domain during the Bakumatsu period in Japan. Influenced by the effects of the Perry Expedition, Takechi formed the Tosa Kinnō-tō (土佐勤王党, Tosa Imp ...

(

Ryo Nishikido is a Japanese singer and actor. He was formerly under the management of Johnny & Associates as a member of Japanese boy bands Kanjani Eight and News. His first solo album was released in December 2019. Biography Ryo Nishikido was born in Hyo ...

) finds himself unwittingly transported to modern-day rural Japan. The disconcerted

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of History of Japan#Medieval Japan (1185–1573/1600), medieval and Edo period, early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retai ...

is taken in by a kind-hearted elderly man who runs a tuition centre, much to the dismay of the latter's grandchildren Haruka and Toranosuke. Despite making little effort to conceal his disdain for the Westernisation of his beloved homeland, Hanpeita finds himself slowly adapting to his new life while figuring ways to get back to his wife.

Cast

* Ryunosuke Kamiki as

Sakamoto Ryōma was a Japanese ''samurai'', a '' shishi'' and influential figure of the '' Bakumatsu'' and establishment of the Empire of Japan in the late Edo period. He was a low-ranking ''samurai'' from the Tosa Domain on Shikoku and became an active op ...

Manami Higa is a Japanese actress. Her mother was a model. She graduated from Okinawa Prefectural Central High School. She gained recognition as an actress when she was selected in an audition of 2,156 people to star in the NHK Asadora , colloquially kno ...

as Haruka Saeki *Ryusei Fujii as Toranosuke Saeki *

Yuina Kuroshima is a Japanese actress, model and tarento. Filmography Film * '' Ju-on: The Beginning of the End'' (2014), Yayoi * '' Strobe Edge'' (2015), Mao Sugimoto * '' Ju-on: The Final'' (2015), Yayoi * ''Ashita ni Nareba.'' (2015), Miki Sasaki * '' Stra ...

as Sachiko Akagi *Nicole Ishida as Rio Shinohara * Zen Kajihara as Kiichi Komiyama *Leo Morimoto as Makoto Saeki

References

External links

* * {{IMDb title, tt4992150, Samurai Sensei Japanese drama television series TV Asahi television dramas 2015 Japanese television series debuts 2015 Japanese television series endings Japanese television dramas based on manga