- Drama: The Story of Yamada Taro
- Romaji: Yamada Taro Monogatari
- Japanese: 山田太郎ものがたり
- Director: Yasuharu Ishii, Ryutaro Kawashima, Daisuke Yamamuro
- Writer: Magii
- Network: TBS
- Episodes: 10
- Release Date: July 6 – September 14, 2007
- Runtime: 45 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Taro Yamada, a freshman on a scholarship at Ichinomiya Private Senior High School, is high-achieving, strikingly handsome, and truly athletic and seems perfect. But he is actually extremely poor. The story humorously portrays Taro, who tackles problems that occur because of his poverty, and his six younger brothers and sisters. The original comic book sold a cumulative total of over 7 million copies. The book was translated into many languages and sold worldwide, and it was made into a drama entitled “Píng Qióng Guì Gōng Zǐ” in Taiwan in 2001.
Cast
- Kazunari Ninomiya – Taro Yamada (17)
- Sho Sakurai – Takuya Mimura (17)
- Mikako Tabe – Takako Ikegami (17)
- Mitsuru Matsuoka – Kazuo Yamada (32)
- Kazue Fukiishi – Torii Kyoko
- Hisashi Yoshizawa
- Haruna Kojima
- Shugo Oshinari – Sugiura Keichi (17)
- Chihiro Otsuka – Nakai Masami (17)
- Hiroaki Fukui – Shinosuke Osaki
- Rie Shibata – Maria Ikegami
- Naomasa Musaka – Ryunosuke Ikegami
- Akihiro Yarita – Jiro Yamada
- Ken Utsui – Ichinomiya
- Ryosuke Takahashi – Shin Okubo
- Naomi Nishida – Tsuyuko Mimura
- Takeru Shibuya – Mutsumi Yamada
- Shintaro Yamada – Masaki Ando
- Sayaka Ogata – Honoka Kashiwagi
- Tsubaki Nekoze
- Chihiru Yarita
- Momoko Kikuchi – Ayako Yamada (38)
- Risako Tokoro – Chikako Hoshino (17)
- Shigehito Tanaka – Shoichiro Sasaki (17)
- Aoi Takano – Junko Sugawara (17)
- Takuya Inoue – Akira Serizawa (17)
- Risa Shirasawa – Mari Miyake (17)
- Yuya Fukuda – Ryunosuke Koizumi (17)
- Kasumi Irifune – Saori Fujita (17)
- Atsushi Harada – Tsubasa Kinoshita (17)
- Jun Hamada – Karin Eto (17)
- Masaki Naito – Ryusei Harukawa (17)
- Toshiki Ayata
- Kazuaki Hankai
- Asami Mizukawa – ep.6
- Satoshi Ono – ep.10
- Akaji Maro
- Asami Tano
- Naoya Shimizu
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