It was revealed on the 17th that actor Masaki Okada will be appearing in the Sunday Theatre drama " Mikami Sensei " (TBS, Sundays at 9pm) starring Tori Matsuzaka , which will start on January 19th. Okada will play Makino Kyosuke, a colleague of the "bureaucratic teacher" Mikami (Matsuzaka) at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. A trailer featuring scenes featuring Makino was released on the same day.
This will be Okada's first appearance in a drama on the same network in a year since "Inappropriately Too Much!" and his first appearance in a Sunday Theatre in eight years since "Little Giants" (2017).
" Mikami Sensei" is about Takashi Mikami (Matsuzaka), a bureaucrat from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology who graduated from Tokyo University and has a desire to change the Japanese education system. He is ordered to transfer to a private high school called Rintoku Gakuin. In reality, he is demoted, but Mikami himself takes to the podium and leads 18-year-old high school students living in the Reiwa era while standing up to authority... This is a "great reversal of 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.
Makino and Mikami, played by Okada, are fellow bureaucrats who competed fiercely for a position that is said to be difficult to get into. Mikami joined the school, while Makino joined the Ministry of Education. The two parted ways. People are interested in what kind of person Makino is.
◇Comment from Producer Kazutaka Iida
I've been with the company for 20 years, and I feel that the presence of my peers is very important. Especially with my peers in the drama department, we all have our own goals, and we work hard towards them, sometimes arguing, sometimes fighting, sometimes cooperating, and supporting each other greatly, and there is a strange connection in our hearts that goes beyond the length of time we've shared. There must be a story that cannot be put into words about these two peers, Mikami and Makino. Something mysterious and mysterious is born in the space created by Tori Tori Matsuzaka and Masaki Okada Okada. What is it? Will they harmonize or repel each other? I hope you will pay attention to how the relationship between the two, which is filled with trust, respect, hostility, jealousy, and various other emotions, will be intertwined with the story.
