MR. BRAIN
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Current user rating: 93/100 (39 votes)
Profile
- TV Show: MR. BRAIN
- Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa, Yuichiro Hirakawa, Daisuke Yamamuro
- Writer: Mitsuharu Makita
- Network: TBS
- Episodes: 8
- Release Date: May 23 - June 11, 2009
- Runtime: Saturday 20:00
- TV Ratings: 20.5%
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Takuya Kimura plays Ryusuke Tsukumo, a neurological scientist studying human nature at the Metropolitan Police Agency’s National Research Institute of Police Science. He tackles fundamental questions about human nature and overturns a few commonly-held beliefs along the way in a gripping mystery drama packed with plenty of emotional punch.
Ryusuke Tsukumo gets arrested himself for allegedly setting off an explosion. During his interrogation, he answers the questions using his keen sense of intellect and knack for deductive reasoning and turns the questions back on his interrogators, setting up inferences that point to a more likely suspect ...
Cast
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| Takuya Kimura | Haruka Ayase | Hiro Mizushima | Sei Hiraizumi | Osamu Shitara |
| Ryusuke Tsukumo | Kazune Yuri | Toranosuke Hayashida | Junpei Funaki | Junichi Kanda |
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| Shigenori Yamazaki | Shunya Isaka | Yasufumi Hayashi | Katsuya Kobayashi | Yuji Tanaka |
| Koichi Ouchi | Katsumi Namikoshi | Kiyoshi Iwabuchi | Ippei Seta | Mitsuo Natsume |
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| Tortoise Matsumoto | Mao Daichi | Teruyuki Kagawa | Yukina Kinoshita | Shiho |
| Jotaro Nanba | Miharu Sasa | Tomomi Tanbara | cleaning lady | Mariko |
Additional Cast Members:
- Ebizo Ichikawa - Kohei Takei (ep1,7-8)
- Keiko Toda - host club customer (ep.1)
- Ryoko Hirosue - woman (ep.1)
- Yusuke Santamaria - Tsutomu Funada (ep.1)
- Masanobu Takashima - Kenzo Doi (ep.1)
- Kotaro Shiga - Goichi Tsuchida (ep.1)
- Kanji Tsuda - Kazuhiko Komine (ep.1)
- Ryohei Abe - yakuza (ep.1)
- Tetta Sugimoto - Hideki Kojima (ep1,3,7)
- Gackt - Teijiro Takegami (ep.2)
- Yosuke Kawamura - detective (ep.2,5)
- Yutaka Matsushige - Seiji Kishikawa (ep.2)
- Yasuto Kosuda - ep.2
- Hiroaki Fukui - Hidekazu Takada (ep.2)
- Satoshi Jinbo - Shusuke Tsumura (ep.2)
- Hideo Ishiguro - Kozo Sugiyama (ep.2)
- Yusuke Hirayama - Hideki Goto (ep.2)
- Koyuki - Kumiko Miyase (ep.2)
- Hiroyuki Onoue - crime lab member (ep2-3,5,7-8)
- Kazuya Kamenashi - Masakazu Wakui (ep.3)
- Saki Aibu - Megumi Goto (ep.3)
- Mantaro Koichi - Dr. Chihara (ep.3)
- Toru Shinagawa - Shinichi Hyuga (ep.3)
- Tatsuhito Okuda - Police commissioner (ep.3)
- Tae Kimura - Jun Nakagawa (ep.4-5)
- Takeru Sato - Masaru Nakagawa (ep.4-5)
- Hideki Togi - Hitoshi Yagi (ep.4-5)
- Yuya Takayama - ep.4,5
- Yukie Nakama - Kanako Akiyoshi (ep.5-6)
- Yujiro Komura - ep.5
- David Ito - Minoru Nishizaki (ep.5)
- Yo Yoshida - Ryoko Sakamoto (ep.5-6)
- Ken Mitsuishi - Yoshiyuki Aizawa (ep.7-8)
- Kazuma Suzuki - Shinichiro Ozaki (ep.7-8)
- Takeshi Obayashi - Yozo Kawase (ep.7)
- Takaya Kamikawa - Yosuke Kitazato (ep.7-8)
- Meikyo Yamada - ep.7,8
- Akira Hamada - Kohei Ozaki (ep.7-8)
- Tsuyoshi Hayashi - ep.7
- Shingo Katori - hijacker (ep.8)
Trailer
Episode Ratings
| Episode | Date | Ratings (Kanto Region) |
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| 01 | 01/16/2009 | 24.8% |
| 02 | 01/23/2009 | 22.0% |
| 03 | 01/30/2009 | 16.3% |
| 04 | 02/06/2009 | 21.0% |
| 05 | 02/13/2009 | 18.5% |
| 06 | 02/20/2009 | 18.9% |
| 07 | 02/27/2009 | 18.3% |
| 08 | 03/06/2009 | 20.7% |
| Average | 20.5% | |
Source: Video Research, Ltd.
Aiza M Says:
Jun 29 2011 10:44 pm
I just finished watching this days ago and I thought it was really fun and interesting to watch! :) I loved it! I'm looking forward to the season 2, are they going to film another season?? ^^,)
sumoni Says:
Jan 05 2011 2:45 am
I really liked this one. His character was different from the other ones he plays. Although most of Kimura's characters are different. He chooses his roles well. Anyway, this drama was okay. I'm not really into science, so I don't like it that much. But for Kimura fans I highly recommend. He's like a japanese version of Dr. Who in his personality. I also agree with LinWei, Yukie did a fantastic job in her appearance. Completely upstaged everyone else in a very good way.
sasdf Says:
Dec 26 2009 7:13 am
THIS SHOW SUCKS!
LinWei Says:
Sep 03 2009 7:47 am
this seems to pick up only at ep.4 for me... not sure why, maybe it's because i've came to expect too much from a Kimura Takuya drama. there will most likely be a SP... or should i say, movie(since it's Kimura Takuya). definitely, with the Takei issue. Nakama Yukie acted really well on her guest appearance and Katori Shingo's appearance on the last part was a really nice touch with his comedic feel.
laladeda Says:
Jun 09 2009 8:37 am
i already watched the 1st and 2nd episodes with the subs, it was funny, especially at the end of the 2nd episode. :)
Rapjocity Says:
May 24 2009 4:02 pm
i cnt wait to watch it in subs