Fake Mommy (Japanese Television Drama)

Fake Mommy (Japanese: フェイクマミー, Romaji: Feiku Mamī) is a Japanese television drama series broadcast on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) network. Directed by John Eun-Hee, Koya Shimada, and Moeka Miyazaki, with scripts written by San Sonomura and Ryoko Kimura, the series ran for 10 episodes in the autumn of 2025.

Broadcast Details and Schedule

The series occupied TBS's Friday 22:00 time slot. It premiered on October 10, 2025, and concluded its 10-episode run on December 12, 2025. In the network's broadcasting schedule, it took over the time slot previously held by the drama DOPE and was followed by Dream Stage in January 2026.

Cast Members

The drama features a large ensemble cast portraying interconnected characters across its storyline.

• Haru as Kaoru Hanamura
• Rina Kawaei as Mamie Hidaka
• Koji Mukai as Ryoma Kuroki
• Aoi Ikemura as Iroha Hidaka
• Jiei Wakabayashi as Daiki Machida

• Nana Asakawa as Nagisa Fujisaki
• Atsuhiro Tsuda as Toshiaki Noguchi
• Miwako Kakei as Yumi Takanashi
• Daichi Asai as Masahito Uesugi
• Mariko Tsutsui as Seiko Hanamura

• Show Kasamatsu as a mysterious man
• Aoi Nakamura as Tomoya Sasaki
• Shuntaro Miyao as Tatsuya Nozoe
• Go Riju as Kenichiro Kashimura
• Minami Tanaka as Sayuri Motohashi

• Kayo Noro as Reika Kujo
• Manami Hashimoto as Miu Sonoda
• Kurumi Nakada as Shiori Shirakawa

Additional supporting cast members include Oolong ta Yoshida (Interviewer Murase), Daisaku Nishino (Yuta Hongo), Mansaku Fuwa (Miyata), Jun Matsumoto (Miyata's wife), Mika Ahn (Haruka Mikoshiba), Kunihiro Suda (Amano), Hiroshi Okochi (Onozuka), Yoko Kondo (Minemura), Yurito Mori (Naoto Kubota), Wakako Shimazaki (Mitsuko Hidaka), Shunya Itabashi (Okamoto), Shigenori Yamazaki (Kurita), Shu Morozumi (Reporter Kajiwara), Ran Tamai (Nurse), Honoka Murakami (Nurse), Hajime Inoue (Chairman), Tatsumi Asa (Streamer), and Yuri Shirahane (Detective).

Episode Ratings

According to research data from Video Research, Ltd., television viewership ratings recorded in the Kanto region across the series' ten broadcast weeks were as follows: