Teppan
TV ShowTitle | てっぱん |
User score | 8 |
Release date | Sep 27, 2010 |
Release date of last episode | Apr 2, 2011 |
Genre | Drama |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | NHK |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 1 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 151 |
Run time | 15 min. |
Teppan is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd Asadora. It starred a new actress, Miori Takimoto, in the role of a young woman raised by an adopted family in Onomichi who learns of her real grandmother and decides to move to Osaka to start an okonomiyaki restaurant. The title word "teppan" refers to the metal surface on which okonomiyaki are cooked. The series, while interrupted by the Tohoku Earthquake, averaged a 17.2% rating, making it the fourth most popular of the Asadora dramas in the previous five years.