Amachan

Amachan
Genre	Home drama, Drama
Written by	Kankuro Kudo
Directed by	Tsuyoshi Inoue Teruyuki Yoshida Toki Kajiwara
Starring	Rena Nōnen Kyōko Koizumi Toshinori Omi Tetta Sugimoto Eri Watanabe Hiroko Yakushimaru Keizō Kanie Nobuko Miyamoto
Narrated by	Nobuko Miyamoto Rena Nōnen Kyōko Koizumi
Composer	Otomo Yoshihide
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	156
Production
Producers	Kei Kurube Hiroshi Kashi
Running time	15 minutes
Original release
Network	NHK
Release	April 1 (2013-04-01) – September 28, 2013 (2013-09-28)
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Amachan (あまちゃん) is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on April 1, 2013, and was broadcast until September 28, 2013. It was scripted by Kankurō Kudō and starred Rena Nōnen as Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo who moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then returns to Tokyo to try to become a real idol, and finally returns to Tohoku to help revitalize the area after the Great East Japan earthquake.^[1] It is the 88th NHK Asadora. Amachan was not only a ratings success, but brought economic benefits to the Tohoku region and was considered a social phenomenon. It also won the Galaxy Award for best television program of 2013.