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Drama: News Anchor
Romaji: Caster
Japanese: キャスター
Director: Akiko Kato, Ko Kanai
Writer: Ken Tsuchiya, Mami Oikawa, Lee Jen-Mei, Aoto Tani, Yusuke Moriguchi, Katsuhiro Kitaura
Network: TBS
Episodes: 10
Release Date: April 13 - June 15, 2025
Runtime: Sunday 21:00
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Soichi Shindo (Hiroshi Abe) built his career as a social affairs reporter for a public broadcasting station. After that, he worked as an anchorman for a news program. He was then scouted by the chairperson for commercial television station JBN and Soichi Shindo becomes the main announcer for News Gate, which is the flagship news program for JBN. Although News Gate has aired for 40 years on JBM, the program is currently struggling with low ratings. Soichi Shindo begins to work with Director Hana Sakikubo (Mei Nagano) and Assistant Director Yusuke Motohashi (Shunsuke Michieda). They grow as a team and work hard to reveal the truth of various incidents.

Notes

"Caster" takes over TBS' Sunday 21:00 time slot previously occupied by "Mr. Mikami's Classroom" and followed by "19 Banme no Karte" on July 13, 2025.

Cast



Hiroshi Abe	Mei Nagano	Shunsuke Michieda	Kanato Tsukishiro	Tatsunari Kimura
Soichi Shindo	Hana Sakikubo	Yusuke Motohashi	Nami Koike	Junya Ono



Kim Mu-Jun	Maika Sasaki	Reo Tamaoki	Akiko Kikuchi	Emma Miyazawa
Choi Jae-Sung	Saya Toyama	Kodai Kajiwara	Erika Ando	Sakiko Ichinose



Takuma Otoo	Hiccorohee	Haruhiko Kato	Takashi Okabe	Hideki Takahashi
Kazuyuki Yamai	Masako Nabeta	Shinji Takimoto	Koji Kaiba	Yoshio Kunisada



Makiya Yamaguchi	Reika Horikoshi	Asuka Kurosawa	Masaki Kaji	Kinya Kitaoji
Tetsu Matsubara	Sumire Yoko	Yumi Sakikubo	Ryohei Minami	Tsuyoshi Hanyu



Haruka Uchimura	Ayumi Tanida	Ritsuki Baba
Shinichi Hanyu	Masataka Ozaki	Soichi Shindo (child)

Additional Cast Members:

Shungo Takasaki - Detective Hoshi
Shuji Okui - Sagawa
Takashi Yamanaka - Keisuke Kawashima
Akiko Aitsuki - Kyoko Yoko
Renji Ishibashi - Eiji Kageyama
Gaku Yamamoto - Kazuo Yamai
Hajime Inoue - Yasuo Egami
Natsuko - Mai Egami
Ryota Miyadate - Sho Kounoike (ep.1-2)
Yasuhito Hida - Tadakuni Nezu (ep.1)
Natsuki Harada - pediatric patient's mother (ep.1)
Daisuke Kuroda - Kohei Nagasaki (ep.1)
Takayuki Suzuki - Wataru Natsu (ep.2)
Ryosuke Mikata - Kazuhiko Imai (ep.2)
Ichirota Miyakawa - Yasuyuki Nishina (ep.2)
Yuichi Takeda - coach (ep.2)
Non - Kaede Shinomiya (ep.3)
Kai Inowaki - Makoto Kuribayashi (ep.3)
Go Riju - Masaichi Masanobu (ep.3)
Tsutomu Takahashi - Hiromichi Haga (ep.4,7)
Erika Mabuchi - Chie Kaiba (ep.4)
Toru Baba - Ozu (ep.4)
Tamaki Ogawa - Yukiko Takeno (ep.5)
Toru Tezuka - Yoshinobu Murasaki (ep.5)
Junpei Yasui - Tetsushi Komai (ep.5)
Aki Maeda - Mitsue Fukagawa (ep.5)
Rigaku Suzuki - driver (ep.5)
Anne Nakamura - Mayumi Fujii (ep.6-7)
Shinya Niiro - Takeshi Fukazawa (ep.6-7)
[[Seiko Noguchi] - mental health center employee (ep.6)
Nina Yamazaki - nurse (ep.7)
Satoru Matsuo - Kuniaki Ikeuchi (ep.8-9)
Akira Otaka - Seiichi Kakuta (ep.8)
Yasuto Kosuda - Kohei Anzai (ep.8)
Ran Tamai - weather forecaster (ep.8)
Takuto Teranishi - mysterious man (ep.10)
Megumi Ujiie - nurse (ep.10)

Comments

Jai Nov 03 2025 7:32 pm I can finally watch Kanato Tsukishiro ! I love her voice + diction and will always support you!

Axel Jun 22 2025 9:47 am Excellent, enjoyable drama. Most impressive to see the supreme 3 old-school actors, Hideki , Kinya, and Renji still active and strong performers along side the ever formidable Hiroshi Abe.. Hope there is a season 2.

New York Jellybean Feb 25 2025 12:37 am Hiroshi Abe is one of my favorite actors. I can’t wait to see his latest!!

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 * [[Takashi Yamanaka (1978)|Takashi Yamanaka]] - Keisuke Kawashima
 * [[Akiko Aitsuki]] - Kyoko Yoko
+* [[Renji Ishibashi]] - Eiji Kageyama
+* [[Gaku Yamamoto]] - Kazuo Yamai
+* [[Hajime Inoue]] - Yasuo Egami
+* [[Natsuko (1996)|Natsuko]] - Mai Egami
 * [[Ryota Miyadate]] - Sho Kounoike (ep.1-2)
 * [[Yasuhito Hida]] - Tadakuni Nezu (ep.1)
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 * [[Aki Maeda]] - Mitsue Fukagawa (ep.5)
 * [[Rigaku Suzuki]] - driver (ep.5)
+* [[Anne Nakamura]] - Mayumi Fujii (ep.6-7)
+* [[Shinya Niiro]] - Takeshi Fukazawa (ep.6-7)
+* [[Seiko Noguchi] - mental health center employee (ep.6)
+* [[Nina Yamazaki]] - nurse (ep.7)
+* [[Satoru Matsuo]] - Kuniaki Ikeuchi (ep.8-9)
+* [[Akira Otaka]] - Seiichi Kakuta (ep.8)
+* [[Yasuto Kosuda]] - Kohei Anzai (ep.8)
+* [[Ran Tamai]] - weather forecaster (ep.8)
+* [[Takuto Teranishi]] - mysterious man (ep.10)
+* [[Megumi Ujiie]] - nurse (ep.10)
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