Bambino!
Seen it?2007 | 1 seasons | 48 min | Drama
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With a small audience and almost no lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for anyone who loves a strong character drama.
- The mood
- Thoughtful and character-driven.
- The pace
- 1 season: a few weeks of evenings, episodes of about 48 minutes, about 9 hours in all.
- What might put you off
- It's in Japanese, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
Bambino! is a Japanese cooking manga written and illustrated by Tetsuji Sekiya. The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan's seinen magazine Big Comic Spirits. As of February 2009, Shogakukan has published 14 bound volumes of the manga. It received the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga along with Takeshi Natsuhara's and Kuromaru's Kurosagi. NTV broadcast the live-action TV drama from April 18, 2007 to June 27, 2007. It was broadcast in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico by TV Japan, an affiliate of NHK, from January to March 2008.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerWeak
Limited series that reached a small audience so far
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 5K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
- Jun MatsumotoBan Shogo
- KarinaAsuka Hibino
- Ryuta SatoKatori Nozomi
- Yuki UchidaMiyuki Shishido
- Kuranosuke SasakiAtsushi Kuwabara
- Kazuki KitamuraTsukasa Yonamine
- Masachika IchimuraTekkan Shishido
- Osamu MukaiMasashi Senoo
- Ayaka KomatsuKozue Minakawa
- Kei YamamotoSusumu Endo