Coach (Japanese Television Drama Series)
Coach is a Japanese television drama series broadcast on TV Tokyo. The series ran for nine episodes from October 17 through December 12, 2025, airing in the Friday 21:00 time slot. It follows the television slot previously occupied by Noumen Kenji and preceded the broadcast of Moto Kasouken no Onna in January 2026.
Background and Production
The television series is an adaptation of the novel titled Coach, written by Shunichi Doba. The original source material was published on October 30, 2020, by Tokyo Sogensha. The adaptation was brought to the screen through the collaborative efforts of directors Takuro Oikawa, Mitsunobu Hosokawa, and Takehito Muroi, with a screenwriting team consisting of Tetsuya Oishi, Takuro Oikawa, Soichiro Ojima, and Hayato Miura.
Cast and Characters
The drama features an extensive ensemble cast comprising principal and supporting actors.
Main cast members include Toshiaki Karasawa as Kotaro Mukai, Kana Kurashina as Hitomi Masuyama, Atsuhiro Inukai as Takayuki Tokoro, Mandy Sekiguchi as Takeo Saijo, and Nichika Akutsu as Satoshi Masaki.
Additional leading cast members feature Arata Furuta as Takafumi Sagara and Tae Kimura as Yuri Tominaga.
The supporting cast includes Seiichi Tanabe as Katsuya Takashima, Yoshiyuki Tsubokura as Yoshinori Mita, Kenji Iwaya as Seiji Ishida, Yasufumi Hayashi as Tomoharu Kurimoto, Mio Kudo as Miku Nagatani, Hiroo Otaka as Tetsuo Takano, Koutaro Tanaka as Yuhei Nishihara, Yuka Itaya as Reiko Imai, Keiko Enoue as Saeko, Keisuke Watanabe as Taiga Masuoka, Masanobu Sakata as Ken Murayama, Masaya Kikawada as Ichita Kondo, Kentaro Tamura as Yoshiki Ueno, Takeshi Itakura as Tatsuro Nagai, Koki Tanaka as Shota Miyakawa, Yukiko Senga as Manager Kuriyama, Eriko Tomiyama as Reina Taki, Yuichi Takeda as a police officer, Yorie Yamashita as Taeko Mimura, Seiji Fukushi as Ryuhei Hashigami, Toshihide Tonesaku as Yuji Harukawa, Yusuke Yamanaka as Toshihiro Oyama, Akane Osawa as Nao Kirishima, Akapen Takigawa as Keigo Shiroyama, Ryusuke Komakine as Susumu Imamura, Toshinori Omi as Shigeki Oda, Kazunari Uryu as Takao Kamimura, Man Kato as Fujioka, Tomokoi Kimura as a club manager, Yusuke Hirayama as Igarashi, Shogo Hama as Ryuta Sakurai, Yusei Tajima as Ryota Kanaya, Shizue Masuko as Yae, Rina Ogawa as Reina Nomoto, Yuki Izumisawa as Kosuke Morita, Shin Shimizu as Shuji Tokunaga, Atsushi Fukazawa as Kazuki Akatsu, Hikari Kajiwara as Shuji Tokunaga's wife, Masahiro Hisano as a police officer, Ryuga Sato as Shinjiro Sakai, Seiya Osada as Kengo Yamaoka, Jin Katagiri as Kashima, Kazuma Sano as Minoru Sekiya, Tomonori Mizuno as Moe Takagi's father, Ryu Kohata as Hidetoshi Furuya, Yumi Wakatsuki as Saori Hamaura, Tsuyoshi Nakano as an administrator, Fuku Kondo as a detective, and Mizuki Harumiya as an employee.
Broadcast Information
The series was broadcast by TV Tokyo with a total run of nine episodes. It occupied the Friday 21:00 schedule block starting October 17, 2025, concluding on December 12, 2025.