Nonon is set to appear in a drama series on a commercial key station for the first time in eleven years.

A grand return to that “Sunday Gekijo”!

Actor Hiroshi Abe (60) will star in the TBS Sunday drama “Caster” in the April season. This will be the sixth time in three years since “DCU – Diver with Handcuffs” (2010) that he will be starring in the same TV drama series.

The drama has an original script. Abe, a former reporter in the society department of a public broadcasting company, plays the role of an unconventional news anchor who is selected to revamp a news program. With a mission to correct the lukewarm news reporting system, she exposes the truth that has been buried in the shadows.

In addition to Abe, Mei Nagano (25) will play the role of the general director who has been selected to clean up the program, and Naniwa Boys Shunsuke Michieda (22) will play the role of an AD in his second year with the company. Takuma Oto (48), Takashi Okabe (52), Emma Miyazawa (36), and former top Takarazuka star Kanaka Tsukishiro (34) have all been announced to appear.

Speaking of Mr. Abe, he has starred in the “Downtown Rocket” series (’15, ’18, etc.), the second series of “Dragon Zakura” (’21), “DCU,” and “VIVAN” (’23), in which he played one of the main cast members. (’23), in which I played one of the main cast members, all achieved high ratings. With Fuji TV in the midst of the turmoil, a new drama set at a TV station that is likely to be quite aggressive in its content can be expected to have high viewer ratings,” said a reporter in charge of broadcasting.

The fact that actor Non (31) will appear in the drama has been reported by several media outlets and has become a hot topic of conversation. According to some reports, she will play the role of a female researcher who discovers a “new pluripotent cell” in a university laboratory and is thrust into the limelight. If she does appear, it will be the first time in 11 years since she starred in a drama series on a commercial key station, and it will be the first time in even longer if it is a serial drama.

Speaking of NON, she first came to prominence in NHK’s television series “Amachan,” in which she played the heroine as “Reina Noh. However, she was later forced to change her stage name due to a contract dispute with her former agency.

Since then, however, offers have been pouring in, mainly for movies and commercials, and the fact that Jun Fukuda (59), currently CEO of STARTO ENTERTAINMENT (Starto), was acting as his agent behind the scenes has become a hot topic. The fact that Mr. Michieda, who belongs to STARTO, is appearing in the new drama may be a result of that relationship.