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Live-Action Way of the Househusband Series Casts Comedian Cookie!
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official The Way of the Househusband (Gokushufudō) manga revealed on Saturday that comedian Kunihiro "Cookie!" Kawashima will the series' cast. Cookie! will serve as a narrator for the show, introducing characters and , but will also play a role in the story that the staff chose not to reveal yet.
As previously announced, MW's Michio Yūki) will play Tatsu.
play Miku, the wife of the protagonist Tatsu.
Masa, an underling in the protagonist Tatsu's former gang.
play Tatsuki Sakai, a police officer stationed at a neighborhood police box.
play the original character Yukari Ōmae, a college student working part-time at a cafe.
Tamaki Shiratori plays Tatsu and Miku's daughter Himawari, another original character for the show. Himawari is an elementary schoolgirl whose maturity belies her young age, and is often more grown-up than her own mother.
Kenichi Takitō plays Torajirō Shirakawa, a former yakuza nicknamed "The Steel-Fisted Tiger" who once rivaled Tatsu's strength, but ended up doing time, and now runs a crepe stand.
Naoto Takenaka plays Tenjakukai yakuza boss Kikujirō Eguchi.
Izumi Inamori plays Kikujirō's wife Hibari Eguchi.
Other cast include: (Top row, left to right in image above)
- Michiko Tanaka as Kayo Ōta, a member of the women's association in Tatsu's Karyō-chō neighborhood
- MEGUMI as Kazuko Tanaka, the head of the women's association in Tatsu's Karyō-chō neighborhood
- Kunimitsu Daijōsan, the head of a rival organization to the Tenjakukai
- Junpei Yasui as Sakai's senior officer in the police
- Hisamichi Kataoka as Jun Okano, a member of the Daijōsan
- Daisuke Nakagawa as Noboru Ida, a member of the Daijōsan
- Kenji Mizuhashi as Makoto Tōno, the manager of the cafe where Yukari works
- Akira Miyake, the manager of the supermarket that Tatsu frequents
- Chise Niitsu as Yuki Tachibana, a classmate of Tatsu's daughter Himawari
The series will premiere on Da-iCE is performing the series' theme song "CITRUS."
The Way of the Househusband follows a retired yakuza member known as "Immortal Tatsu" who is living out his post-crime career as a househusband. He still manages to find his way into trouble from time to time, except it's in the grocery aisle instead of some back alley.
Oono launched the manga on publishing the manga in English, and it released the fourth volume on September 15.
The manga already inspired a live-action Maaya Sakamoto voiced the wife Miku.
The manga ranked on Honya Club's "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics" lists for 2018 and 2019.
Sources: Way of the Househusband live-action series' Twitter , Comic Natalie
