Shitamachi Rocket - Season 2 ~ Episode01-05

Drama: Downtown Rocket 2
Romaji: Shitamachi Rocket
Japanese: 下町ロケット
Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa, Kenta Tanaka
Writer: Jun Ikeido (novel), Kentaro Ushio
Network: TBS
Episodes:
Release Date: October 14, 2018 —
Runtime: Sunday 21:00-21:54
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Kohei (Hiroshi Abe) is a former researcher at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. He now runs a factory which his father left behind.

Kohei takes part in the domestic rocket development plan Stardust, run by a large Japanese corporation. One day, Kohei hears that the CEO of that company will be replaced and the Stardust plan will be shut down. He is shocked.

Naohiro’s (Danshun Tatekawa) is an employee at Kohei’s factory. His father has fallen ill and every weekend Naohiro goes to his father’s farm to take care of him and the farm. Kohei and Mitsuhiko (Ken Yasuda) visit Naohiro. There, Kohei sees Naohiro driving a tractor. At that time, Kohei is inspired by a new dream.

Notes

Based on novel “Shitamachi Rocket Gosuto” by Jun Ikeido (published July 20, 2018 by Shogakukan).
Related titles (drama series):
1. Downtown Rocket | Shitamachi Rocket (TBS / 2015)
2. Downtown Rocket 2 | Shitamachi Rocket (TBS / 2018)

Cast



Hiroshi Abe	Tao Tsuchiya	Ryoma Takeuchi	Ken Yasuda	Satoshi Tokushige
Kohei Tsukuda	Rina Tsukuda	Yosuke Tachibana	Mitsuhiko Yamasaki	Makio Karube



Soko Wada	Hiroki Konno	Ken Nakamoto	Ayumi Tanida	Yoshiyuki Tsubokura
Haruki Ebara	Shigeru Sakota	Kaoru Tsuno	Atsushi Karakida	Shinji Kurata



Toru Baba	Aki Asakura	Ryoko Tateishi	Keisuke Yamamoto	Yusuke Yamada
Hiroki Kashiwada	Aki Kano	Kyoko Tonomura	Makita	Ikuma Honda



Naruki Matsukawa	Tetsuya Sugaya	Rio Kanno	Anna Hara	Sakiko Bokumoto
Fumiya Saeki	Tomoyuki Ueshima	Nanao Sakamoto	Ayumi Saito	Misaki Nishina



Itta Maru	Ayako Imoto	Miki Maya	Katsunori Uchiba	Seiji Rokkaku
Naoto Iruma	Yuu Shimazu	Saya Izumi	Atsushi Kandagawa	Tatsuno



Kohki Okada	Toshiaki Megumi	Shinnosuke Ikehata	Ichiro Furutachi	Houka Kinoshita
Akira Inamoto	Shuichi Kamiya	Kyoichi Nakagawa	Toshiyuki Shigeta	Shigeharu Mizuhara