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about the training of

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s for

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originally serialized in ''

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'' from

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beginning in 1970.

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adapted a TV

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from the manga in 1970. Thirty-six years later,

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produced a new drama series in 2006. The name of the character, Yōko Misaki was used in both versions.

1970 version

Cast

2006 version

Episodes

The 2006 program follows the life of Misaki as she slowly conquers various obstacles to become a flight attendant. Each episode ends with a showcase of the various uniforms that have been used in JAL to a cover of "Oh Pretty Woman" by

Kaela Kimura is a Japanese pop rock singer, lyricist, fashion model and television presenter. Career Born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother and British father, Kimura started working as a model in 2002 for the Japanese magazine '' Seventeen''. ...

Cast

* Aya Ueto as Misaki Youko *

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as Nakahara Shota *

Miki Maya is a Japanese actress and former top star of the Takarazuka Revue. Her real name is . She joined the Takarazuka Revue in 1981. Her debut performance was "Takarazuka Haru no Odori" and she became the top star of the Flower Troupe for her role in ...

as Mikami Tamaki *

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as Wakamura Yayoi * Chihiro Otsuka as Sekiyama Yuki *Misa Uehara as Hirota Saori *

Kotaro Koizumi is a Japanese actor and the eldest son of the 56th Japanese Prime Minister, Junichirō Koizumi, and Kayoko Miyamoto. He studied economics at night classes of Nihon University, but dropped out. Filmography Television *''Who Wants to Be a Mill ...

as Tsutsumi Shuusuke *

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as Sakurada Shinya * Yuko Fueki as Asou Kaoru *Natsumi Nanase as Kinoshita Asami *Minami Otomo as Higashino Haruka * Mariko Takahashi as Kagawa Reiko *Mantaro Koichi as Watanabe Makoto *Kazuyuki Asano as Wakamura Shozo *Inoue Jun as Dazai Shinichiro *Mano Yuuko as Murayama Mizuho *Hoshino Natsuko as Takemoto Rie *Tanaka Sogen as Ooki Mitsuya *Ishikawa Maki as Chief Nagano ; :Misaki is a lead singer of a rock band. She lost her mother at young age and was raised with her three brothers. She is very boyish in nature and prefers male to female company. She enrolls to become a flight attendant to gain the attention of another band member after he mentions about how she would look like in a uniform. She finds training in flight attendant academy to be difficult but manages to overcome various obstacles with a unique persistence. She slowly wins respect of her instructors and batchmates. ; :Shōta is a mechanic working for JAL. He has always wanted to be a pilot on a commercial airliner but could not become one as he did not have perfect eyesight. He is still allowed to pilot small aircraft and takes Misaki on a trip during the series to cheer her up. He first met her in the first episode where she accuses him of stealing her train ticket. Reserved and quiet, he and Misaki initially do not get along however become close friends by the end of the series.

Soundtrack

# Oh Pretty Woman -

# Attention Please ~ Main Theme # What Am I Gonna Do # Head Wind # Circle of my Life # A Goody Goody # Attention Please ~ (Love Theme) # Turbulence # Mock up # Fight Irregularity # Go Around # Stage of The Sky # Normally Hidden Function # Do Really # Break Down # Painful And Embarrassed # Link to The Future # Attention Please ~ (End Title) # Oh Pretty Woman ~ (Instrumental)

January 2007 special

A special was aired in January 2007. Misaki was given her first international assignment to Hawaii. In this special Misaki has to play matchmaker to bring two people together. At the end, Misaki gains the courage and is about to tell Shota that she likes him but is interrupted with a rare green sunset, 'Green Flash' in Hawaii. That sunset foretells that a couple who sees the Green Flash will live happily together forever.

Cast

* Aya Ueto as Misaki Youko *

as Nakahara Shota *

as Mikami Tamaki *

as Wakamura Yayoi * Chihiro Otsuka as Sekiyama Yuki *Misa Uehara as Hirota Saori *

as Tsutsumi Shuusuke * Yuko Fueki as Asou Kaoru *

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as Risa Nakata * Bokuzo Masana as Todoroki Hiroto *Hori Mayumi as Ito Nanako *Ito Masayuki as a passenger *David Hirokane as Mr. Nakata *Yatsu Isao as the taxi driver *Ideguchi Tetsuya & Kawamoto Chiaki as the newlyweds *Katsukura Keiko as a passenger *Taira Chiharu as the young mother *Yamase Shota as the high-spirited child

April 2008 special

There was a second special aired in April 2008. Misaki imagines and dreams of becoming the top cabin attendant in the world. She has ongoing conflicts with a new trainee CA, who is serious. She then heads to Sydney with Wakamura and Sekiyama and gets into an argument with them as Misaki is trying to steal the spotlight for a blog on their airlines CA website. Meanwhile, Sekiyama has feelings for Tsutsumi, but gets upset when he flirts with another woman while Wakamura worries about her father's health. On the other hand, it is revealed that Shōta is in India.

Cast

* Aya Ueto - Youko Misaki (

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Trainee) *

- Shota Nakahara (

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) *

Maya Miki is a Japanese actress and former top star of the Takarazuka Revue. Her real name is . She joined the Takarazuka Revue in 1981. Her debut performance was "Takarazuka Haru no Odori" and she became the top star of the Flower Troupe for her role in ...

- Tamaki Mikami (Flight Attandent Trainee Instructor) *

- Yayoi Wakamura (Flight Attendant Trainee) *Misa Uehara - Saori Hirota (Flight Attendant Trainee) * Chihiro Otsuka - Yuki Sekiyama (Flight Attendant Trainee) *Fumiyo Kohinata - Shinya Sakurada ( Pilot) *

Koutaro Koizumi is a Japanese actor and the eldest son of the 56th Japanese Prime Minister, Junichirō Koizumi, and Kayoko Miyamoto. He studied economics at night classes of Nihon University, but dropped out. Filmography Television *''Who Wants to Be a Mill ...

- Shusuke Tsutsumi (Inexperienced Pilot) * Yuko Fueki - Kaoru Asou (Senior Flight Attendant) *Minami Ootomo - Haruka Higashino (Flight Attendant Trainee) *Natsumi Nanase - Asami Kinoshita (Flight Attendant Trainee Instructor) * Mariko Takahashi - Reiko Kagawa (ep.1-4) *Mantaro Koichi - Makoto Watanabe (Flight Engineer) *Kazuyuki Asano - Shozo Wakamura (Noodle Shop Owner, Yayoi's father) *Jun Inoue - Shinichirō Dazai (Department Head of Flight Attendant Trainee) *Yuuko Mano - Mizuho Murayama (Senior Flight Attendant) *Natsuko Hoshino - Rie Takemoto (Flight Attendant Trainee)

References

External links

Official site

* {{IMDb title, 0765424, Attention Please (2006 version) 1970 Japanese television series debuts 1971 Japanese television series endings 2006 Japanese television series debuts 2006 Japanese television series endings Aviation television series Fuji TV dramas Japanese drama television series Kodansha manga Manga adapted into television series Shōjo manga TBS Television (Japan) dramas Works about flight attendants