- Drama: Change
- Director: Kensaku Sawada, Shin Hirano
- Writer: Yasushi Fukuda
- Network: Fuji TV
- Episode: 10
- Release Date: May 12 – July 14, 2008
- Runtime: Monday 21:00-21:54
- Ratings: 22.08% (Weekly Average)
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
- Theme Song: Madonna’s “Miles Away”
Plot
Kimura plays Keita Asakura, 35, a primary school teacher from rural Nagano Prefecture whose recently deceased father had been a dietman from Kyushu. An all-around nice guy, Keita has no interest in politics and agrees to run only to get everyone off his back once and for all. But with the help of some sharp political operatives, he will be swept into the Diet and toward the prime ministership.
Once elected, he’s bounced about and manipulated by the elders of the Seiyuto (Political Friends Party) as he tries to use his power to change things for the better.
Cast
Starring
- Takuya Kimura – Keita Asakura (35)
- Eri Fukatsu – Rika Miyama (35) (Keita’s secretary)
Supporting Cast
- Hiroshi Abe – Katsutoshi Nirasawa
- Akira Terao – Shoichi Kanbayashi)(59) (General council Chairman)
- Rosa Kato – Hikaru Miyamoto (23)
- Shiro Ito – (reigning Prime Minister)
- Atsuo Nakamura – (Secretary General)
- Keiko Horiuchi
- Shigeru Koyama
- Takeshi Obayashi
- Junko Fuji
- Koichi Ueda
- Dankichi Kuruma
- Issei Takubo
- Shigeru Izumiya
- Youhei Kumabe – Riichi Morishige
- Ken Ishiguro
- Masahiko Nishimura
- Morio Kazama
- Kenichi Yajima
- Manami Tanabe
- Satoru Saito
- Toshihide Tonesaku
- Kosuke Suzuki
- Kazuya Kojima
- Tsuyoshi Muro
- Natsumi Yamada
- Karin Ono
- Kasumi Yamaya
- Junko Nakazawa
- Ami Ishii
- Koshiro Asami
- Takeshi Obayashi
- Chinu Izumi
- Kinya Kikuchi
- Yoichiro Kono
- Kazutoshi Yokoyama – SP (ep.1)
- Masako Miyaji – ep.3,9
- Leo Morimoto – ep.4
- Kou Yoshinori – ep.4
- Hajime Aoki – ep.4
- Thane Camus – ep.5
- Yumiko Takahashi – ep.6
- Koichi Otake – Aoki (ep.7)
- Kenkichi Watanabe – ep.9
- Shinya Owada – ep.10
