Nobunaga no Chef

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Details

• Title: 信長のシェフ
• Title (romaji): Nobunaga no Chef
• Also known as: A Chef of Nobunaga, The Knife and the Sword
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Historical, fantasy
• Broadcast Network: TV Asahi

Season 1

 

Nobunaga no Chef

• Episodes: 9
• Viewership Rating: 10.8
• Broadcast Period: 2013-Jan-11 to 2013-Mar-15
• Air time: Friday 23:15
• Theme song: My Resistance – Tashikana Mono by Kis-My-Ft2

Synopsis

Based on the manga by Nishimura Mitsuru and Kajikawa Takuro, this drama is about time travel. A chef by the name of Ken, somehow manages to go back in time to the Sengoku period. However, he loses his memory in the process. He is thought to be a spy, and in his haste to escape capture, he dives into the river. He is saved by Natsu, a swordsmith. He doesn’t remember his own past, or the fact that he came from the future, but he remembers cooking well. He is soon recruited by Oda Nobunaga to be his Head Chef. —TV Asahi

Cast

 

Correlation Chart

• Tamamori Yuta as Ken
• Shida Mirai as Natsu
• Gori as Kinoshita Tokichiro Hideyoshi “Saru” (ep1-6,8-9)
• Ukaji Takashi as Mori Yoshinari (ep1-4,6-8)
• Ashina Sei as Kaede (ep1-6,8-9)
  • Nagashima Airi (長島愛莉) as young Kaede (ep6)
• Kitaro as Inoue Kyonosuke (ep1-3,5,7,9)
• Kashii Yu as Mysterious Lady / Yoko
• Nagase Ren as Mori Ranmaru (ep2,7-8)
• Ichikawa Ennosuke (市川猿之助) as Kennyo (ep6-9)
• Hoshino Mari as Oichi (ep5-6)
• Kaai Gamon as Azai Nagamasa (ep5-6)
• Cunning Takeyama as Tokugawa Ieyasu (ep3-5)
  • Ikeda Gaisei (池田凱清) as young Ieyasu (ep4)
• Masana Bokuzo as Ashikaga Yoshiaki (ep3,7-9)
• Inagaki Goro as Akechi Mitsuhide (ep1,7,9)
• Oikawa Mitsuhiro as Oda Nobunaga
  • Nakauchi Tenma (中内天摩) as young Nobunaga (ep4)

Guests

Episode Information

Source: Tokyohive

Season 2

 

Nobunaga no Chef 2

• Episodes: 8
• Viewership Rating: TBA
• Broadcast Period: 2014-Jul-10 to 2014-Sep-04
• Air time: Thursday 20:00 (ep1 2hr special)

Synopsis

French chef Ken, who went back in time to the Sengoku period and became the personal chef of Oda Nobunaga, has regained a part of his lost memory. He learnt the way to return to the present with the help of Akechi Mitsuhide but did not go back and chose to live as Nobunaga’s chef. Nobunaga’s biggest and strongest enemy, the warlord Takeda Shingen and Nobunaga’s official wife Nouhime appears, heralding ups and downs in the relationship of trust between Nobunaga and Ken. And will Mitsuhide cause the Honnoji Incident? –jdramas wordpress–

Cast

 

Correlation Chart

• Tamamori Yuta as Ken
• Oikawa Mitsuhiro as Oda Nobunaga
• Shida Mirai as Natsu
• Gori as Kinoshita Tokichiro Hideyoshi “Saru”
• Ashina Sei as Kaede
• Saito Yuki as Nouhime
• Masana Bokuzo as Ashikaga Yoshiaki
• Inagaki Goro as Akechi Mitsuhide
• David Ito as Shibata Katsuie
• Kitaro as Head Chef Inoue
• Ichikawa Ennosuke (市川猿之助) as Kennyo
• Sasano Takashi as Matsunaga Hisahide
• Takashima Masanobu as Takeda Shingen
• Kaku Kento as Takeda Katsuyori
• Kazama Toru as Akiyama Nobutomo
• Cunning Takeyama as Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Hoshino Mari as Oichi, Nobunaga’s younger sister
• Kaai Gamon as Azai Nagamasa
• Sasaki Nozomi as Karen (ep 1)

Episode Information

Production Credits

• Narrator: Kinomiya Ryoko (来宮良子)
• Screenwriter: Fukasawa Masaki, Kuramochi Yutaka
• Producers: Yokochi Ikuei, Oe Tatsuki, Shimada Kaoru (島田薫)
• Directors: Kanezaki Ryosuke (兼﨑涼介), Tamura Naoki (田村直己), Fujioka Kojiro (藤岡浩二郎)
• Music: Ike Yoshihiro

Notes

• On DVD & Blu-ray 2013-Aug-02 Source
• TV Asahi will air Part 2 of this drama starting 2014-July Source

External Links

• Official site
• Japanese Wikipedia