Engine (TV series)

Infobox television
show_name = Engine


caption =
format = Drama
runtime = approx. 0:46
creator =
starring = Takuya Kimura
Koyuki
Yoshio Harada
Yuki Matsushita
country = Japan
network = Fuji TV
first_aired = April 18 2005
last_aired = June 27 2005
num_episodes = 11

Cast

*Takuya Kimura as Jiro Kanzaki
*Koyuki as Tomomi Mizukoshi
*Masato Sakai as Motoichiro Torii
*Yuki Matsushita as Chihiro Kanzaki
*Yoshio Harada as Takeshi Kanzaki
*Shigeru Izumiya as Chinsaku Ichinose
*Aya Okamoto as Tamaki Suenaga
*Shinsuke Aoki as Hiroto Sugawara

The Children of Kaze no Oka Home

* Ueno Juri as Hoshino Misae
* Toda Erika as Hida Harumi
* Kaho as Ninomiya Yukie
* Houshi Ishida as Shioya Daisuke
* Natsumi Ohira as Taguchi Nao
* Daiki Arioka as Sonobe Toru
* Yuto Nakajima as Kusama Shuhei
* Kosugi Moichiro as Hirayama Morio
* Sato Miku as Sonobe Aoi
* Hirota Ryo as Tone Akira
* Komuro Yuta as Kanemura Shunta
* Oka Mayu as Komori Nanae

The Story

Kanzaki Jiroh(Takuya Kimura) begins this drama as a second driver to a better driver in Europe. He used to be a star driver in Japan. Unfortunately, when he accidentally crashes into his first driver during a practice run, he loses his job and finds himself a washed up racer who is getting a little too old for the sport back in Japan. Because Kanzaki loves his job with a boiling passion, he wants nothing as badly as to race again. He just needs that feeling he gets when he hears the sound of the engine and grips the steering wheel around a sharp turn. Unfortunately, his old racing team now has a better, younger driver and they don't need or want Kimura's character anymore.

He goes back to live at the home of his foster father and sister who raised him. They run a small orphanage-like home for unfortunate children whose parents can't take care of them. Tomomi Sensei, a young caregiver, who has just been hired there. The kids don't like her because she doesn't seem to understand their feelings and makes misguided attempts to help them. Kanzaki, on the other hand, was an orphan himself and is still very much like a big kid, so he is just what the kids need. Despite the fact that he hates children and just wants to get back into racing instead of helping out at the orphanage, he agrees to drive the orphanage's van and take the kids to school, etc. in exchange for being allowed to live there.

Kanzaki and Tomami's characters are obviously set up for a romantic relationship. The two of them will end up together, and Kimura's character will have to go against the odds to become a champion racer again - because Kimura's characters can never give up what they love most.