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Barakamon
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Daisuke Ono
Sei 'Seishu' Handa (voice)
12 eps
Suzuko Hara
Naru Kotoishi (voice)
12 eps
Nozomi Furuki
Miwa Yamamura (voice)
12 eps
Rumi Okubo
Tamako 'Tama' Arai (voice)
10 eps
Rina Endou
Hina Kubota (voice)
12 eps
Seiya Kimura
Kentaro 'Kenta' Ohama (voice)
9 eps
Junichi Suwabe
Takao Kawafuji (voice)
9 eps
Toshihiko Miki
Director (voice)
5 eps
Hiroshi Ito
Kosaku Kotoishi (voice)
5 eps
Tanuki Sugino
Yuujiro Kido (voice)
6 eps
Fumihiko Tachiki
Ikko Sakamoto (voice)
6 eps
Yasuko Hatori
Fumi Kinoshita (voice)
3 eps
Kayou Nakajima
Neighborhood Lady (voice)
1 eps
Ena Matsuo
Neighborhood Lady (voice)
1 eps
Genki Yoshimoto
Removalist (voice)
1 eps
Shinobu Matsumoto
Man (voice)
1 eps
Koki Uchiyama
Hiroshi Kido (voice)
10 eps
Kei Hayami
Tomoko Kido (voice)
3 eps
Ryosuke Kanemoto
Hiroshi's Friend (voice)
2 eps
Ryoko Ono
Ikue Komoto (voice)
2 eps
Kenichi Mochizuki
Hiroshi's Homeroom Teacher (voice)
1 eps
Seiji Kato
PE Teacher (voice)
1 eps
Ikumi Nakagami
Music Teacher (voice)
1 eps
Mutsumi Sasaki
Elderly Man (voice)
1 eps
Reiko Suzuki
Yasu 'Yasuba' Nomura (voice)
3 eps
Mayuno Yasokawa
Tamako's Mother (voice)
1 eps
Yumiko Nakanishi
Kentaro's Mother (voice)
1 eps
Atsushi Ono
Iwao Yamamura (voice)
3 eps
Kohsuke Meguro
Seimei Handa (voice)
4 eps
Atsuko Yuya
Lady from the Cat House (voice)
1 eps
Takahiro Fujiwara
Villager (voice)
2 eps
Tatsuki Ishikawa
Daisuke (voice)
6 eps
Satoru Koga
Yutaka (voice)
6 eps
Megumi Han
Akihiko 'Akki' Arai (voice)
7 eps
Koushin Maeda
Man from the Cat House (voice)
3 eps
Yuki Kaji
Kousuke Kanzaki (voice)
5 eps
Masuo Amada
Villager (voice)
1 eps
Kousuke Goto
Villager (voice)
1 eps
Mitsuru Miyamoto
Nenbutsu Folk Dance Leader (voice)
1 eps
Shohei Ogawa
Nenbutsu Folk Dancer (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Barakamon actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Barakamon reads strongest on Bingeability, Humour and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
After punching a famous curator in the face for criticizing his work as "textbook and lifeless," Handa Seishuu is sent to Gotō Island to calm his nerves and find new inspiration for his calligraphy. Growing up in the city all his life, though, Handa must adapt to country life while meeting an assortment of quirky people during his tenure.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E13
Mijikamon: Episode 12
S01E12
Glad You're Back
- Directed by Masaki Tachibana
- Written by Pierre Sugiura
S00E12
Mijikamon: Episode 11
S01E11
I am in Tokyo
- Directed by Taketomo Ishikawa
- Written by Pierre Sugiura
S00E11
Mijikamon: Episode 10
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Manabu TamuraExecutive Producer
- Hiroyuki UenoProducer
- Koji TaguchiExecutive Producer
- Junnosuke ItoProducer
- Marina SasakiProducer
- Toshio NakataniProducer
Writing
- Pierre SugiuraWriter
Direction
- Shinya KawatsuraDirector
- Taketomo IshikawaDirector
- Shinya IinoDirector
- Satomi NakamuraDirector
- Shingo KanekoDirector
- Masaki TachibanaDirector
Cinematography
- Yu WakabayashiDirector of Photography
Music
- Kenji KawaiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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