Actors Akari Takaishi and Juri Uesaka appeared on the 12th at the “Rintoku Gakuin Opening Ceremony Event” on the TBS Sunday theater “Ogami Sensei” (starting on the 19th, Sunday 9pm, extended 25 minutes).
The film depicts Takashi Ogami, an elite Ministry of Education bureaucrat who graduated from the University of Tokyo, played by Tori Matsuzaka, who is ordered to go to a private high school, Rintoku Gakuin, through the bureaucrat dispatch system, and how he confronts authority while guiding 18-year-old high school students. It will be done. Deputy homeroom teacher Fumika Kore-eda is played by Riho Yoshioka.
This time, the 29 students in 3rd grade and 2nd class of Rintoku Gakuin, where Mr. Ogami is seconded as their homeroom teacher, are a gathering of up-and-coming young cast members who will lead the next generation and were selected through auditions.
Takaishi will play the role of Chigira Haruka, and Uesaka will play the role of Shinonome Tazune, a student in class 3 and 2.
Takaishi is an actor who attracted attention last year when she was chosen to be the heroine of the NHK TV drama series “Bakebake” to be aired in the latter half of 2025.
She won the Best Emerging Actress Award at the 15th TAMA Film Awards. In 2024, she will be the heroine in the drama “Crash JK and Crash Teacher Lesson 2”, movies “Baby Warukyure Nice Days,” and “Rookie Reporter Trocco: If I Don’t Do It, Who Will Do It!?” ”, the animated film “Your Color”, “A Hotel Suitable for Me”, and “I Just Dropped My Smartphone Final Chapter: Final Hacking Game”, among many other works.
Most recently, the movie “Suicide Note” was released. ” (to be released on January 31st) has been decided. He is gaining momentum as he plays the lead role for the first time in the movie “Ghost Killer”.
Uesaka passed “Miss Seventeen 2021” and became an exclusive model for “Seventeen”. In 2023, she played the role of the heroine in the drama “An Old Man on Her Period and His Daughter” and appeared in “My Most Favorite Flower”, “Nurse Aid”, etc. Last year, he made his first regular appearance in a golden drama in “Billion x School,” and many praised his acting skills, making him an actor who is currently attracting a lot of attention.
At this day’s event entitled “Rintoku Gakuin Opening Ceremony”, in addition to Matsuzaka who played the role of Mr. Ogami, the bureaucratic teacher who is the homeroom teacher of Rintoku Gakuin’s 3rd grade class 2, and Yoshioka who played the role of Fumika Kore-eda, the deputy homeroom teacher, 3 people attended. A total of 27 student cast members from Class 2 attended the event.
At the event, each student role performed a performance that was created by each student, including song and dance presentations and a maniac presentation corner. At the end, they sang the school song, creating a realistic high school atmosphere.
Takaishi and Uesaka are seniors and juniors at their agency, and when they appeared, they flashed refreshing smiles side by side.
In the middle of the event, in the maniac presentation corner, Yudai Toyota, who plays Ryo Miyazawa, released a number of off-shots of the student cast under the title “Gap Moe.”
Toyota announced that Uesaka’s off-shot was “not an off-shot at all!”
“Mr. Uesaka has a different taste,” he says, in a shot of him making pieces in a classroom.
Riho Yoshioka also wondered, “Is this a magazine cover?” Toyoda chimed in, “The facial expressions are perfect. The accuracy of the pieces is amazing!” Uesaka blushed and smiled wryly. I showed it.
When another shot of Uesaka holding a cup of coffee and smiling was shown, Yoshioka reacted with excitement, saying, “This is a photo book!”
Uesaka said, “Kageyama-san took both photos, and his camera was simply the best. Kageyama-san adjusted the lighting, so it’s all thanks to Kageyama-san!” , praised Yuka Kageyama, who plays Yume Kurayoshi, her classmate in 3rd grade class 2.
In response to Uesaka’s words, Kageyama retorted, saying, “It’s all thanks to the subject!” “If the subject isn’t good, the photo won’t work. That’s why I agree that Ms. Uesaka is so wonderful!” she said, sparking an impromptu debate that excited the audience.
After the event, Takaishi said, “It was a very luxurious time as I got to know a lot of new sides of the cast,” and seemed to enjoy the time.
He added, “There’s only a few days left until the show airs. I’m grateful to be able to work with such charming people, and I’ll do my best!”
How will Chigira, played by Takaishi, and Shinonome, played by Uesaka, be involved in the story? I can’t wait for the first broadcast on the 19th.
TBS’s Sunday theater “Ogami Sensei” starts on January 19th. (From 9:00 p.m., the first time will be expanded by 25 minutes)
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