- Drama: The Queen of Lunchtime Cuisine
- Romaji: Lunch no Joou
- Japanese: ランチの女王
- Director: Narihide Mizuta, Tekeshi Shirakawa, Yasuhiro Kawamura, Akihiro Karaki
- Writer: Mika Omori, Yumiko Inoue
- Producer: Masatoshi Yamaguchi
- Network: Fuji TV
- Episode: 12
- Release Date: July 1 – September 16, 2002
- Runtime: 21:00-21:54
- TV Ratings: 18.91%
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Here’s one Western-style food restaurant where good-looking guys with distinctive personalities put their hearts and souls into cooking.It’s a little space where people can experience the joy of eating good food.With the sudden appearance of the Queen of Lunchtime Cuisine, there starts a “love story in the family” that’s as thick and complex as the taste of a demiglace sauce. Here’s a home comedy with a love story with Yuko Takeuchi in the lead role and other great players in the cast.
Cast
- Yosuke Eguchi – Yujiro Nabeshima
- Misaki Ito – Tomato Shiomi
- Yuko Takeuchi – Natsumi Mugita
- Kosuke Toyohara
- Satoshi Tsumabuki – Junzaburo Nabeshima
- Shinichi Tsutsumi – Kenichiro Nabeshima
- Go Wakabayashi – Kenzo Nabeshima
- Takayuki Yamada – Minoru Ushijima
- Tomohisa Yamashita – Koshiro Nabeshima
- Masako Umemiya – Hidemi Yamashiro
- Eita – Noboru Sakai
- Issei Takubo – Mamoru Kawabata
- Ryohei Hirota – ep. 6
- Masayuki Ito – producer (ep.9)
- Eriko Sato – ep 11
- Emi Suzuki – Yumi
- Takao Toji – ep. 12
Episode Ratings
| Episode | Date | Ratings (Kanto Region) |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 07/01/2002 | 21.9% |
| 02 | 07/08/2002 | 18.5% |
| 03 | 07/15/2002 | 19.7% |
| 04 | 07/22/2002 | 18.8% |
| 05 | 07/29/2002 | 18.5% |
| 06 | 08/05/2002 | 17.0% |
| 07 | 08/12/2002 | 17.0% |
| 08 | 08/19/2002 | 19.1% |
| 09 | 08/26/2002 | 17.7% |
| 10 | 09/02/2002 | 20.0% |
| 11 | 09/09/2002 | 17.5% |
| 12 | 09/16/2002 | 21.2% |
| Average | 18.9% | |
