The Sunday Theatre drama " Mikami Sensei " (TBS, Sunday 9pm) starring actor Tori Matsuzaka 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 number 26, Ryuichiro Fuyuki (Koki Yamashita). A video introducing the students is also available on the drama's official SNS.
Fuyuki is a sarcastic and argumentative person who ends up saying the truth. He doesn't stand out in class, but he has a strong voice. He used to be in the math club and likes RPG games. He wants to work in finance.
Yamashita, who will be playing the role, said, "I was honestly happy when I was chosen to appear. I am also very excited to be working again with producer Kazutaka Iida, who I first worked with on 'Anti-Hero' (2024), and director Yohei Miyazaki, who has been helping me since 'I'll Be Your Flower' (2022). I am approaching filming with confidence and nervousness in being able to act in this environment. Since I think that the atmosphere on set of a school drama will have an impact on the work, I am trying to become friendly with the students so that I can express the relationship between the students in Class 3-2, who have been promoted from their second year. In preparing for the role, I focused on Ellie. I'm researching vocabulary unique to a preparatory school and studying how to be a smart character like Ryuichiro Fuyuki every day. This is the first time I've played a character that is so different from my usual self, so I look forward to going to the set every day. The students are all very interesting, and the set is warm and welcoming, allowing us to speak up even when we get stuck on a difficult line. Mikami Sensei teaches us the importance of "thinking," and how it can change ourselves, the people around us, and even the future. I hope you'll watch as Mikami Sensei's thoughts infect the students and the expressions on the faces of the 29 high school students change."
"Mikami Sensei" is about a Ministry of Education bureaucrat, Takashi Mikami (Matsuzaka), who wants to change the Japanese education system, being ordered to transfer to a private high school, Rintoku Gakuin. In reality, it was a demotion, 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 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.
