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Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House Live-Action Series' Teaser Reveals More Cast, January 12 Debut
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Netflix began streaming an English-subtitled teaser trailer on Monday for Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House, the live-action series of Aiko Koyama's Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san (Makanai in the Maiko Lodge) manga. The video reveals more cast for the series, and also reveals that the series will debut on Netflix worldwide on January 12, 2023.
The new cast members include: (Top row, left to right in image above)
- Jō Kairi as Kenta Nakanowatari
- Momoko Fukuchi as Tsurukoma
- Kotoko Wakayanagi as Kikuno
- Kotona Minami as Kotono
- Lily Franky as Ren
- Yukiya Kitamura as Takeshi Ishida
- Toshinori Omi as Nagase Seino
- Kanji Furutachi as Kanjirō Furutachi
- Keiko Toda as Kimie Sakurai
- Kayoko Shiraishi as Kiyo's grandmother
- Arata Iura as Masahiro Tanabe
The cast includes:
- Nana Mori as Kiyo
- Natsuki Deguchi as Sumire
- Aju Makita as Ryо̄ko
- Keiko Matsuzaka as Chiyo
- Ai Hashimoto as Momoko
- Mayu Matsuoka as Yoshino
- Takako Tokiwa as Asuka
Hirokazu Kore-eda (Air Doll live-action movie) is directing the series. Megumi Tsuno, Hiroshi Okuyama, and Takuma Sato are also directing. Genki Kawamura (Detroit Metal City live-action movie) is in charge of planning. Kore-eda, Tsuno, Okuyama, Sato, and Mami Sunada are writing the scripts. Yoshihiro Furusawa and Naomi Sato are executive producers. Kenji Yamada, Ai Kashima, and Eiji Kitahara are producing the series. Risa Kitabayashi is an associate producer.
The manga's story is set in Kyoto's "hanamachi" geisha quarter. Here, after geisha finish their work late at night, they spend the night resting at a lodge to prepare for the next day. The story centers on Kiyo, an Aomori native who works as a cook in a geisha lodge in Kyoto after finishing junior high school and leaving home. She also has a friend named Sumire who is a maiko, or apprentice geisha.
The manga inspired an anime adaptation titled Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House. The anime premiered on the NHK World channel with English subtitles in February 2021, and new episodes debut once a month. Crunchyroll is also streaming the anime.
Koyama launched the manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine in December 2016, and the series is ongoing. The manga won the Best Shōnen Manga award in the 65th Shogakukan Manga Awards in January 2020.
Sources: Netflix's YouTube channel, Comic Natalie
