The first broadcast of the Sunday Theatre drama " Mikami Sensei " (TBS, Sunday 9:00 pm) starring actor Tori Matsuzaka in January 2025 has been decided to be on January 19th, and the poster visual was released on December 23rd.
" 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, who is ordered to transfer to a private high school. In reality, it was a demotion given to an elite bureaucrat, but Mikami thinks that he can't change the system by being on the side that creates it, so he should speak up from the field and destroy the system from within, so he takes to the podium himself, guiding 18-year-old high school students living in the Reiwa era and standing up to authority... This is the story.
The completely original story will be written by Shimori Roba, who will team up with Matsuzaka for the first time since the film "The Journalist," and will be in charge of the script for a prime-time drama series for the first time. Kazutaka Iida, who has been in charge of the popular Sunday Theater series "Anti-Hero" (2024) and "VIVANT" (2023), will serve as producer.
The released poster visual shows the "bureaucratic teacher" Okami (Matsuzaka) standing on the front line of education, facing up to authority while carrying the "shadow of the country" towering behind him. In addition, the latest spot released on December 22nd revealed that the first broadcast will be on January 19th.
In addition, it was revealed that Shiro Sagisu, who is in charge of the theme songs for the anime series "Evangelion," will be in charge of the soundtrack for this work, writing a new theme song for a drama for the first time in 15 years. Sagisu has been active at the forefront for 46 years since participating in T-Square's debut work in 1978. He has been in charge of the theme songs for the movies "Attack on Titan" and "Shin Godzilla."
Regarding the production, Sagisu commented, "The classroom is an orchestra! There is no society in the world more interesting than the classroom. Now, the stage is set for great performances and great songs to be born!" Producer Kazutaka Iida expressed his expectations, saying, "I remember him reading the scripts for all the episodes and saying that he enjoyed the task of creating a song from scratch without any pictures. The divine and gentle music has already enveloped the students."
The song will be released in the "Sagisu Shiro version long spot" that will be released on the official SNS on December 23rd. The first-ever footage of the main story will also be released.
◇Full comment from Shiro Sagisu
The classroom is an orchestra!
A teacher who has come down from the civil service to the earthly world and the students who confront him... Classrooms and education are places where people must resonate with each other, but if an orchestra is an institution where the conductor and musicians can resonate with each other without empathy, then the ``Mikami Sensei'' classroom is also an orchestra!
Forty years ago, I was facing my students at a music school, and I was able to empathize with them without necessarily feeling empathy... I still keep in touch with those students. There is no society in the world more interesting than the classroom.
Now, the stage is set for great performances and great songs!
Shiro Sagisu
