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Live-Action Tsuri Baka Nisshi Show Recasts Toshiyuki Nishida as the Boss
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website of the live-action TV series adaptation of Juzo Yamasaki and Kenichi Kitami's Tsuri Baka Nisshi (Diary of a Fishing Fool) manga announced on Monday that Toshiyuki Nishida (A Letter to Momo, live-action Space Battleship Yamato) has been cast as the boss, Ichinosuke Suzuki.
In the 22 previous live-action film adaptations of the manga, Nishida played the protagonist Hama-chan. Rentarō Mikuni, who passed away in 2013, played Suzuki.
Nishida will join Gaku Hamada (Miss Hokusai's Zenjiro, live-action Space Brothers' Yasushi Furuya, live-action Nobunaga Concerto's Tokugawa Ieyasu), who will play the protagonist Hama-chan.
The rest of the cast includes:
- Alice Hirose as Michiko Kobayashi
- Mitsuru Fukikoshi as Kazuo Sasaki
- Tarō Suruga as Masayuki Suzuki
- Kitarō as Heita Kobayashi
- Shōno Hayama as Shintaro Tsuozumi
- Momoko Tanabe as Kaoru Kobayashi
- Kenta Satoi as Managing Director Sadamatsu
- Tatsuo Nadaka as Managing Director Okamoto
- Ryō Ono as Personnel Manager Nogami
- Manabu Ino as Secretary Ueki
- Atsushi as Yūji Yamaguchi
- Riki Miura as Satoshi Iwami
- Kanro Morita as Mamoru Ōhara
- Ikue Sakakibara as Toshiko Hamasaki
- Yoshie Ichige as Hisae Suzuki
- Masatō Ibu as Sales Manager Akiyama
The series will premiere in October, and it will air on Fridays at 8 p.m. The series will air on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TV Setouchi, TV Hokkaido, and TVQ Broadcasting Kyushu.
Yuzo Asahara (Tsuri Baka Nisshi films 14-20) is directing the series, and Kumiko Satō (Sanbiki no Ossan, Kagi no nai Yume wo Miru) is writing the scripts.
The manga follows Densuke "Hama-chan" Hamazaki, an unavaricious white-collar worker who does not have any interest in success and self-protection. Even though he incurs the wrath of his superior and stirs ill feelings from his wife, Hama-chan prefers to take things at his own stride and goes fishing. He feels that there are more important things in life than work and enjoys the simple things in life such as fishing.
Yamasaki and Kitami launched the manga series in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original magazine in 1979. Shogakukan will release the 92nd volume on September 30.
Tsuri Baka Nisshi was adapted into a 36-episode television anime in 2002. The manga also spawned 22 live action films, the last of which opened in Japan in 2009.
Source: Comic Natalie
