is a

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that aired on

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in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd

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. It starred a new actress,

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, in the role of a young woman raised by an adopted family in

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who learns of her real grandmother and decides to move to

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to start an

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restaurant. The title word "teppan" refers to the metal surface on which okonomiyaki are cooked. The series, while interrupted by the Tohoku earthquake, averaged a 17.2% rating (in the

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), making it the fourth most popular of the Asadora dramas in the previous five years.

Cast

, as Akari Murakami, the heroine *

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, as Michiko Murakami, Akari's adoptive mother *

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, as Jō Murakami, Akari's adoptive father *

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as Kinya Murakami *Naoyuki Morita as Teppei Murakami *

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as Kana Shinomiya, Akari's friend *

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as Kyuta Shinomiya, Kana's father *

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as Ryuen Yokoyama *Seiya Osada as Kaoru Takizawa, a marathon runner *

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as Takashi Nemoto, Kaoru's coach *

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as Jun Iwasaki *Tamiyasu Cho as Hajime Hamano *Miyuki Kawanaka as Sayoko Matsushita *

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as Eiji Kanda *

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as Fuyumi Nishino *Hiroshi Kanbe as Takuro Sasai, an artist *

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as Toru Nakaoka *Koki Maeda as Tamio Nakaoka, Toru's son *

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as Nozomi Kobayakawa *

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as Den Hasegawa *

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, as Hatsune Tanaka, Akari's real grandmother *

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(narrator) *

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, as Tanaka Chiharu

International broadcast

* The broadcast rights for the drama were sold to Sri Lanka with the intention of dubbing it into Sinhalese.

References

External links

* 2010 Japanese television series debuts 2011 Japanese television series endings Asadora Television shows set in Osaka {{Japan-tv-prog-stub