Gochisōsan
| Gochisōsan | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Bon Appetit! |
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Yoshiko Morishita |
| Directed by | Takafumi Kimura Tetsuya Watanabe Yoshiharu Sasaki |
| Starring | Anne Watanabe Masahiro Higashide Naomi Zaizen Taizō Harada Midoriko Kimura Tsuyoshi Muro Yoshiko Miyazaki Mitsuki Takahata Kazuko Yoshiyuki Masaomi Kondō Masato Wada Aki Maeda |
| Narrated by | Kazuko Yoshiyuki |
| Opening theme | "Ame Nochi Hallelujah" by Yuzu |
| Composer | Yoko Kanno |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 150 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 15 minutes |
| Production company | NHK Osaka |
| Original release | |
| Network | NHK |
| Release | September 30, 2013 – March 29, 2014 |
Gochisōsan (ごちそうさん), released in some countries as Bon Appetit!, is a Japanese television drama series. It first aired from 30 September 2013 to 29 March 2014. It is scripted by Yoshiko Morishita, who wrote such dramas as Jin, and stars Anne Watanabe as Meiko Uno, a woman who lives through the Taisho and Shōwa eras and tries to excel at Japanese cuisine. Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries, moves to Osaka with her husband, and experiences cultural differences between Tokyo and Osaka, as she lives as a mother and wife in Osaka. It is the 89th NHK Asadora.
The word gochisōsan is an informal version of gochisōsama, a term used to thank a host or a cook for a meal.