ベイカー寮221B／Baker House 221B

Kōichi, Daichi and the employees of Kohaze-ya cheer for Hiroto Mogi at the New Year Ekiden Race. During the race, Mogi catches up with his rival Naoyuki Kezuka, member of Asia Industries Running Team and overtakes him in his leg. Then he hands over his sash to next runner Takao Hirase. Hirase runs with all his might and is praised by his teammates though he cannot finish in the first place. After the race, Mogi mentions his Rikuoh in the interview.

Rikuoh becomes to be well-known and some runners ask Kohaze-ya sponsor them. And Mogi emphasises in the interview with an editor of a sport magazine that Rikuoh is ideal. On the other hand, Hirase retires from his running career and one night he visits the clubhouse of Daiwa Food. Then the ground is illuminated suddenly and his teammates appear to say good-bye to him (*). 

Hirase (Masato Wada) runs his last race

(*) This teammates' surprise also appears in the 7th episode of "No Side Game". In the episode, Ryōta Satomura who leaves the Astros to join the Cyclones visits the clubhouse and meets his teammates.

The images are from the official website of "Rikuoh".

A lawyer who works at Uemachi law firm. He usually leaves his office on time to buy food for dinner. He is a methodical man and a man of economy. On the other hand, he is indecisive and tactless. He met Kenji when he was 40 and became to be familiar with each other.

 

Kenji Yabuki (Seiyō Uchino)

A hair stylist who lives with Shirō and calls him "Shiro-san". He is friendly to everybody and an expert at handling complaints from customers. Unlike Shirō who tells Kayoko that he is a gay in the episode 2, he tells that he loves men only to those close to him. His ideal man is Ryo Saeba, main character of "City Hunter". He loves eating the meals cooked by Shirō.

 

Gorō Kakei (Kōtarō Shiga→Ryōsei Tayama)

He is a father of Shirō. He cannot understand that his son is a gay but accepts it. He suffers esophageal cancer and it worries his wife Hisaē and Shirō.

 

Hisaē Kakei (Meiko Kaji)

She is a mother of Shirō and accepts his son is a gay but cannot understand it perfectly. She is delighted with her son's consideration for her and Gorō but thinks it is so "womanly".

 

Kayoko Tominaga (Misako Tanaka, cameo apperance)

She is one of the friends of Shirō who shares the information of food or cooking. She gets to know him at Nakamuraya when she wonders whether she should buy a watermelon or not. And she sometimes advises Shirō when he is troubled by something.

 

Mr. Tominaga (Toshihiro Yashiba)

He is a husband of Kayoko and introduces Daisaku Kohinata who is also a gay to Shirō.

 

Yoshiē Uemachi (Atsuko Takaizumi)

She manages Uemachi law firm and is a boss of Shirō. She is an expert in insolvency law and her son Osamu is also a lawyer and works at the firm.

 

Daisaku Kohinata (Kōji Yamamoto)

He is one of the friends of Mr. Tominaga and enjoys tennis with him. Though he is usually　impassive, he really loves his love Wataru Inoue who is selfish and becomes emotional when he talks about him. He works at a theatrical agency.  　

 

The images are from the official website of TV Tokyo.

But in the episode 2, he tells Kayoko Tominaga that he loves men only by accident. Kayoko is a housewife whom he gets to know at a supermarket Nakamuraya. Then she becomes to share vegetables or fruits with Shirō. His partner Kenji suspects that he loves Kayoko secretly though it's an unnecessary anxiety.

Doyo Jidai Drama Series
The series is formerly called "Doyo Jidaigeki" (Historical Drama Series on Saturdays). A weekly program and many of the series are set in the Edo Period and most of them are fiictional.

BS Jidaigeki
The series that is broadcast on BS Premium. Like Doyo Jidai Drama Series, most of the series are set in the Edo Period but some of them are set in other periods. Some of them are the remakes of the ones once broadcast by commercial stations.

In both series, 10 or 12-13 episodes are broadcast in one season.

Shogatsu Jidaigeki
A drama broadcast on New Year Holidays. In 2018, "Fuunji tachi - Rangaku kakumei hen" will be broadcast. This describes Dutch sholars (*) and politicians in the mid-Edo Period and is dramatised by Koki Mitani, who wrote "Sanada Maru". And some of the cast of the Taiga Drama series as Masao Kusakari, KATAOKA Ainosuke, Koji Yamamoto and Shinya Niiro appear in.

(*) Those who learn Dutch and medical science at that time. As the Netherlands was the only western country that traded with Japan, they learned Western world through studying Dutch. In this drama, their translation task of "Ontleedkundige tafelen" ("Anatomische Tabellen" in German) is mainly described.

The Images are from the official websites of "Mio tsukushi ryoricho" and "Denshichi Torimonocho".