Dr. Ume-chan

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Drama: Dr. Ume-chan (English title)
Romaji: Umechan Sensei
Japanese: 梅ちゃん先生
Director: Takafumi Kimura, Natsuko Katsuta, Taku Ohara, Tomohiro Kuwano, Takegoro Nishimura, Wataru Suzuki
Writer: Masaya Ozaki
Network: NHK
Episodes: 156
Release Date: April 2 - September 29, 2012
Runtime: Monday-Saturday 08:00
TV Ratings: 20.7% (weekly average)
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Set in 1945, Umeko Shimomura (Maki Horikita) has a father, who is a doctor of university hospital, and a talented older sister and older brother. Nevertheless, Umeko Shimomura has no confidence in herself. One day, Umeko Shimomura decides to become a doctor and devotes herself to the local community.

Notes

"Sakasama No Sora" by pop group SMAP is featured as OST for the drama.

Cast



Maki Horikita	Katsumi Takahashi	Kaho Minami	Rie Mimura	Keisuke Koide
Umeko Shimomura	Kenzo Shimomura	Yoshiko Shimomura	Matsuko Shimomura	Takeo Shimomura



Mitsuko Baisho	Shingo Tsurumi	Tsurutaro Kataoka	Tori Matsuzaka	Yoko Oshima
Masae Shimomura	Yojo Tachibana	Kokichi Yasuoka	Nobuo Yasuoka	Kazuko Yasuoka

Additional Cast Members:

Eri Tokunaga - Yayoi Sawada
Shinnosuke Mitsushima - Shinichi Yamakura
Izumi Fujimoto - Tamae Ogawa
Ayako Yoshitani - Kyoko Nakaguro
Fuyuki Moto - Yamabe
Seika Taketomi - Sanae Kinoshita
Sachi Funaki - Yayoi Sawada's mother
Takehiro Hira - Shinkichi Sanada
Tomoka Kurokawa - Yukiko Suto
Aki Nishihara - Noriko Segawa
Kumiko Shiratori - Emi Sonoda
Ayumi Kinoshita - Saeko
Yoji Tanaka - Shibata
Mitsuomi Takahashi - Toshio Matsuoka
Ken Shounozaki - Masahiko Ito
Ryo Hashizume - Taguchi
Yusuke Yamada - Sasaki
Shinya Owada - Teacher Ogida
Kenichi Takito - Kazuya Mikami
Erika Mabuchi - Yumiko Kataoka
Fumino Kimura - Shizuko (Nojima) Shimomura
Shinobu Kawamata - Head Nurse Yukie Yamashita
Masanori Ishii - Assistant Professor Sayama
Narushi Ikeda - Assistant Professor Shigeoka
Terunosuke Takezai - Kinoshita
Toshie Negishi - Masako Kato
Aimi Satsukawa - Sakie Miyata
Jouji Shibue - Tsuda
Ayaka Tasaki - Ryoko Namiki
Dankan - Inoue
Gin Pun Chou - Yaeko Aizawa
Mio Miyatake - Chieko Mikami
Masanori Sera - Shunichiro Sakata
Tomoka Yamaguchi - Chieko Mikami (young child)
Tsumugi Hatakeyama - Chieko Mikami (child)
Hikaru Yamazaki - Nobuo Yasuoka (child)
Kota Ohshima - Kenzo Shimomura (child)
Mitsuko Oka - Taeko Hayano
Shuhei Nomura - Mitsuo Sato
Reiko Kusamura - Asa Murata
Masane Tsukayama - Shinzo Hayano
Shozo Hayashiya - narrator
Ariei Umefune - Keiko Kudo
Keiko Shirasu - nurse
Ken Osawa - Masakazu Kato
Shohei Abe - Morishita (Takeo's subordinate)
Hideki Kurauchi - tax accountant
Miyuki Sato - ep.64-65
Kumiko Ito - Sayoko Maeda (ep.93 -)
Yu Tokui
Setchin Kawaya
Shiro Namiki
Yoshi Sakou
Yukimi Koyanagi
Usagi Kono
Hiroyuki Matsumoto

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Comments

firas Jul 10 2016 1:53 am very nice ^,^ honto kawaii

Anthony K Jun 22 2014 10:29 pm this is perfect

masamune Jun 18 2014 9:42 am this drama give me something to learn, how to achieve goal from Umeko's hard working, her kindness, and many more good points from her. Her face are cute, always cute in every episode until end of episode :) I think this drama must have attention from watcher, because this drama have many important things and we can learn from this drama :) Arigatou gozaimasu....always ganbatte Maki-chan :D

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