Ataru

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Drama: Ataru
Romaji: Ataru
Japanese: Ataru
Director: Hisashi Kimura, Ken Yoshida, Tetsu Kan
Writer: Takeharu Sakurai
Producer: Hiroki Ueda, Satoshi Kan
Network: TBS
Episodes: 11
Release Date: April 15 - June, 2012
Runtime: Sun. 21:00
TV Ratings: 15.6%
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Ataru (Masahiro Nakai) is a young man with autism, but possessing extraordinary abilities in specific fields. In particular, Ataru has enhanced memory and deductive reasoning abilities, which allows him to process seemingly trivial details in order to extract a clear answer. The police department become familiar with Ataru's abilities and then ask Ataru to help them solve cases.

Notes

Related titles:
1. Ataru (TBS / 2012)
2. ATARU Special | ATARU Supesharu - New York kara no Chousenjou (TBS / 2013)
3. ATARU The First Love & The Last Kill (2013)

Cast



Masahiro Nakai	Kazuki Kitamura	Chiaki Kuriyama	Yuta Tamamori	Go Riju
Ataru	Shunichi Sawa	Maiko Ebina	Sho Ebina	Tatsuo Ebina



Kaoru Okunuki	Kyusaku Shimada	Tetsushi Tanaka	Seiji Chihara	Yasuhi Nakamura
Mariko Ebina	Yoji Nakatsugawa	Reiji Atsumi	Hasuo Nozaki	Koshiro Inukai



Ken Shounozaki	Kaoru Mitsumune	Masaya Nakamura	Hiromichi Miyoshi	Masachika Ichimura
Kouki Matsushima	Yui Ishikawa	Nagamasa Kuroki	Takashi Tamakura	Ataru's father

Hiroaki Murakami

Larry Inoue

Additional Cast Members:

Hiroki Kurosawa - Akira Murai
Yuka Itaya - Iku Saiki (ep.1)
Rolly - himself (ep.1,6)
Maki Sakai - Nobuko Saotome (ep.2)
Hana Hizuki - Misaki Shoda (ep.2)
Yu Kamio - Takashi Saotome (ep.2)
Kazuhiko Kanayama - Osamu Masumoto (ep.2)
Rei Saito - Saegusa Masumoto (ep.2)
Daikichi Sugawara - Satoshi Abiko (ep.2)
Tomoya Shiroishi - (ep.2)
Daisuke Sugiura - (ep.2)
Hiroshi Kobayashi - (ep.2,7)
Hitomi Takahashi - Keiko Yuge (ep.3)
Yosuke Asari - Takumi Yuge (ep.3)
Ai Takahashi - Yuko Kojima (ep.3)
Yuta Hiraoka - Takuro Kimihara (ep.4,10)
Kenji Anan - Atsuhiro Miwa (ep.4)
Fumino Kimura - Riko Suzuhara (ep.4)
Tasuku Nagaoka - Toru Hashida (ep.4)
Sakura Ando - Eiko Sasai (ep.4)
Yutaka Kato - (ep.4)
Yoshinori Okada - Shigeki Asao (ep.5)
Kenichi Endo - Matsuo Kadokura (ep.5)
Asami Usuda - Madoka Katsurai (ep5)
Toshihide Tonesaku - Kouji Kitami (ep.5)
Tetsuhiro Ikeda - Etsushirou Igeta (ep.5)
Sayuri Iwata - Kaori Oshima (ep.5)
Wataru Murakami - (ep.5)
Manabu Nakanishi - (ep.5)
Nanaka Yagi - (ep.5,8)
Takuya Ishida - Taichi Higashi (ep.6)
Saki Terashima - Sakie Minase (ep6)
Momoka Ishii - Sakie (child) (ep.6)
Yua Shinkawa - (ep.6)
Kyoko Izumi - (ep.6)
Sachiko Kurosawa - (ep.6)
Toshiyuki Fuse - (ep.6)
Takeshi Masu - Yoshiaki Fukutome (ep.7)
Satoshi Jinbo - Takuma Wada (ep.7)
Asako Kobayashi - (ep.7)
Nahoko Yoshimoto - doctor (ep.7-8)
Meiken Ito - (ep.7,11)
Gota Watabe - Ryota Kawakubo (ep.8)
Ayano Fukuda - Natsumi Kano (ep.8)
Shiiko Utagawa - Ryota’s mother (ep.8)
Makoto Sakamoto - Minoru Ito (ep.8)
Yoriko Kamimura - Landlady (ep.8)
Jun Matsumoto - Himura’s mother (ep.8)
Hajime Okayama - Shoji Kawakubo (ep.8)
Eriko Moriwaki - Kyoko Murai (ep.9)
Hideko Hara - Yuriko Inoguchi (ep.9-11)
Natsumi Abe - Ayaka Kogure / Momoka (ep.10)
Hiroshi Okochi - traffic investigator (ep.10)
Sou Hirosawa - Mami Takarai (ep.10-11)
Makoto Nakamura - (ep.11)

Episode Ratings

Episode	Date	Ratings (Kanto Region)
01	04/15/2012	19.9%
01	04/22/2012	16.9%
03	04/29/2012	10.9%
04	05/06/2012	13.8%
05	05/13/2012	14.5%
06	05/20/2012	17.4%
07	05/27/2012	13.5%
08	06/03/2012	14.7%
09	06/10/2012	17.1%
10	06/17/2012	13.5%
11	06/24/2012	17.4%
Average		15.6%

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Comments

sanna karppinen Jan 10 2016 2:27 am can somebody tel me more about atarus past? who is the white suite guy who follows him? i think he is bad man because he is treating ataru as a labmice not human. it dosen`t matter if you are learning dysfunctional or autistic they have to be treated as humans like the rest of us. they have same rights to experience love, frendship, enjoy life, fufill their dreams and be happy.

tere Jan 26 2013 5:23 am Incredible! fresh and funny detective dramas. recommended for you guys! seriously ^^

tamaki Apr 18 2012 6:53 am ep 1 19,9%...wow...recommended drama...gw suka ...soalnya ada chiaki kuriyama...kawaiii....:P

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