Bambino!

Premise

Bambino! is a Japanese cooking manga written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine Big Comic Spirits. As of February 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 bound volumes of the manga. It received the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga along with Takeshi Natsuhara's and Kuromaru's Kurosagi.

NTV broadcast the live-action TV drama from April 18, 2007 to June 27, 2007. It was broadcast in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico by TV Japan, an affiliate of NHK, from January to March 2008.

Cast and characters

Leading cast

• Jun Matsumoto as Ban Shogo
• Karina as Asuka Hibino
• Ryuta Sato as Katori Nozomi
• Yuki Uchida as Miyuki Shishido
• Kuranosuke Sasaki as Atsushi Kuwabara
• Kazuki Kitamura as Tsukasa Yonamine
• Masachika Ichimura as Tekkan Shishido
• Osamu Mukai as Masashi Senoo

Supporting cast

• Ayaka Komatsu as Kozue Minakawa
• Kei Yamamoto as Susumu Endo
• Kazue Fukiishi as Eri Takahashi

Guest cast

• Keiko Toda as Kyoko Nogami
• Kei Sunaga
• Kimiko Yo
• Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
• Nobuo Kyô

Episodes

This series spans 1 season with 11 episodes.

Production

Release

References

1. The Movie Database (TMDB)
2. TVMaze
3. IMDb
4. Official Website
5. EpisodeTime Show Page