Massan
| Massan | |
|---|---|
Promotional poster | |
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Daisuke Habara |
| Directed by | Yūsuke Noda Toki Kajiwara |
| Starring | Tetsuji Tamayama Charlotte Kate Fox Saki Aibu Norito Yashima Mari Hamada Naomi Nishida Kiyoshi Nishikawa Morio Kazama Gin Maeda Pinko Izumi Shinichi Tsutsumi |
| Narrated by | Yōko Matsuoka |
| Opening theme | "Mugi no Uta" by Miyuki Nakajima |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 150 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Ken Sakurai |
| Producer | Akihisa Yamamoto |
| Production location | Japan |
| Running time | 15 minutes |
| Production company | NHK Osaka |
| Original release | |
| Network | NHK |
| Release | September 29, 2014 – March 28, 2015 |
Massan (Japanese: マッサン) is a Japanese television drama series, the 91st Asadora (morning drama) broadcast daily on NHK from September 29, 2014, until March 28, 2015. Massan is based on the lives of Masataka Taketsuru and his Scottish wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan, whom he met while studying abroad. American actress Charlotte Kate Fox stars as Ellie Kameyama opposite Japanese actor Tetsuji Tamayama as Masaharu Kameyama in a fictionalized account of Rita's travels to Japan and Taketsuru's attempts to begin the Nikka Whisky Distilling company. It is the first time that NHK's Asadora series has featured a non-Japanese actor in a lead role.