Liar Game is a 2007 Japanese live action television drama series directed by Hiroaki Matsuyama, adapted from a manga of the same name. The drama began airing in Japan on April 14, 2007. It featured Erika Toda as Nao Kanzaki, and Shota Matsuda as Shinichi Akiyama. The first season of Liar Game had 11 episodes, with a 3 hour long finale, which was a first for a drama series. It has also gained the second highest viewer satisfaction rating, for the season, in an Oricon survey.
Cast
Players Cast Role Description Erika Toda Kanzaki Nao (18) Honest + Naive College Student. Shota Matsuda Akiyama Shinichi (26) "Genius Swindler" Ex-convict for bankrupting MLM Company Soichiro Kitamura Fujisawa Kazuo Nao's former junior high school teacher (now retired) Soko Wada Etou Koichi (leopard skin clothing) Mayuko Iwasa Ishida Rie (black sunglasses and white pantsuit) Makoto Sakamoto Ono Wataru Fish Store Clerk (thick black rimmed glasses) Yoshiyuki Morishita Tsuchida Yasufumi (older, crooked teeth) Shingo Ippongi Makita Tomoyuki (56) President of small workshop Hiroo Otaka Kida Noriyuki (48) Business Company Clerk Yuki Umishima Takamura Yoshimi (29) Housewife Yoshio Doi Sajima Kenta (34) Actor Sachiko Nakagome Aso Hiromi (29)Truck Driver Masayuki Izumi Okano Kenya Hajime Aoki Kinoshita Keigo Fumiko Mizuta Kawamura Chisato (22) Model Akiko Hatakeyama Nozoe Keiko (40) Housewife Naoki Yukishima Sugawara Yuji (22) Mitsunari Sakamoto Nishino Takahiko (32) Florist Shop assistant Kinako Kobayashi Kayama Harumi (26) Restaurant Clerk Yuki Baba Hanayama Tetsuo (29) TV Assistant Director Tamao Yoshimura Iimura Jun (31) Housewife Hitomi Kitahara Nakaya Kazuko (21) College Student Kosuke Suzuki Fukunaga Yuji Kazuma Suzuki Yokoya (white hair, clothes and shoes, green eyes); connected to MLM company that Akiyama bankrupted Hiroko Taguchi Takada Michiko Unknown
Liar Game Tournament Cast Role Description Shigeo Kiyama Solario (voice) Liar Game main dealer Ryoko Yuui Dealer Michiko Kichise Eri Liar Game coordinator Ikkei Watanabe Tanimura Mitsuo Cop with gold front tooth from Nao Kanzaki's city
Episodes
References
External links Official TV Drama Website from Fuji