Mikami Sensei:[Student introduction] Student number 6 "Endo Yudai" Shunsuke Karaki, a former swimmer with a strong sense of justice and self-confidence, who likes strength training and saunas

The Sunday Theatre drama " Mikami Sensei " (TBS, Sunday 9pm) starring actor Tori Matsuzaka Tori will begin airing on January 19th. The drama will introduce the 29 unique students of class 2, year 3, of Rintoku Gakuin, where Mikami (Matsuzaka) is the homeroom teacher, in order of their attendance numbers. Here we will introduce Endo Yudai (played by Karaki Shunsuke), who is attendance number 6.

Endo has a strong sense of justice and is confident in himself. He likes being alone and is a little strange. He was a former swimmer and likes weight training and saunas. He likes to touch his own muscles.

Karaki, who plays the role, commented, "As it was a school drama on Sunday Theater, it was an audition I really wanted to pass, so I remember being half-crying on the phone when I heard I got it (laughs). That's how happy I was. Endo Yudai's character likes weight training, so I've been working out more frequently to prepare for the role. The atmosphere on set was really good, and you could feel the passion of everyone, including the staff, to make a good production. Also, as he is a weight training character, I shake and drink protein shakes and drinks them at various points, so I hope you will pay attention to that as well while enjoying the role (laughs)."

" Mikami Sensei" is about Takashi Mikami (Matsuzaka), a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology who wants to change the Japanese education system. He is ordered to transfer to a private high school called Rintoku Gakuin. In reality, he was demoted, but Mikami himself takes to the podium and leads 18-year-old high school students living in the Reiwa era, standing up to authority... This is a "great reversal education revival story."

This completely original work will be written by Shimori Roba, who will be teaming up with Matsuzaka for the first time since the film "The Journalist," and will be writing the script for a prime-time drama series for the first time. Kazutaka Iida, who has been in charge of popular Sunday Theater dramas such as "Anti-Hero" (2024) and "VIVANT" (2023), will serve as producer.