Mikami Sensei:[Student introduction] Student number 9 "Kagawa Daiki" Shuto Imai, a former captain of the basketball club who is a joker and stands out in class.

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 Gakuen, where Mikami (Matsuzaka) is the homeroom teacher, in order of their attendance numbers. Here we will introduce Kagawa Daiki (played by Shuto Imai), who is attendance number 9. A video introducing the students is also available on the drama's official SNS.

Kagawa is a former captain of the basketball club who is a joker. His grades are also pretty good. He likes to talk to a lot of different people and stands out in class. He is good friends with Hatano Yu (Mayumi Takeyuki), Anzai Junpei (Shoot Mori), and Endo Yudai (Shunsuke Karaki) in class.

Imai, who plays the role, commented, "I am very happy to be able to live as Kagawa Daiki in Sunday Theater, which can reach so many people, regardless of age or gender. On the set, there are 29 students of the same age who inspire and absorb from each other as they work on film every day, which is very stimulating. Not only the students, but everyone, including the director, exchanges opinions and creates scenes together, which is a fresh sight that is unique to this film, and I feel it is rewarding. The highlight of this film is seeing the 29 students take on society by facing and thinking about the problems they have as a class, rather than treating them individually. I hope you will pay attention to it."

" 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.