Dragon Zakura (TV series)

Dragon Zakura, also known as Dragon-Zakura, is a Japanese live action television series based on the manga of the same name.

Teachers

 * Hiroshi Abe as Kenji Sakuragi, a lawyer and the homeroom teacher for the special class
 * Kyōko Hasegawa as Mamako Ino, an English teacher from Ryūzan High School. She takes care of History lessons for the special class.
 * Yōko Nogiwa as Yuriko Tatsuno, the director of Ryūzan High School and the wife of former owner
 * Yôsuke Saitô (actor) as Tokihisa Kondō, the vice-principal of Ryūzan High School.
 * David Ito as Masanao Ochiai, a teacher from Ryūzan High School
 * Tōru Shinagawa as Tetsunosuke Yanagi, the Mathematics teacher for the special class
 * Minori Terada - Ryūzaburō Akutayama, the Japanese language teacher for the special class
 * Susumu Kobayashi as Shutaro Ain, the Science teacher for the special class
 * Akio Kaneda as Hiroshi Kawaguchi, the English language teacher for the special class
 * Shin Yazawa as Nozomi Yamamoto, Mamako's friend and a teacher of Shūmeikan High School.

Students of the special class

 * Tomohisa Yamashita as Yūsuke Yajima
 * Masami Nagasawa as Naomi Mizuno
 * Teppei Koike as Hideki Ogata
 * Yui Aragaki as Yoshino Kōsaka
 * Akiyoshi Nakao as Ichirō Okuno
 * Saeko as Maki Kobayashi

Family members of special class students

 * Mako Ishino as Setsuko Yajima, Yūsuke's mother
 * Jun Miho as Yūko Mizuno, Naomi's mother
 * Kei Sunaga as Kōsei Ogata, Hideki's father
 * Tomoko Aihara as Mariko Ogata, Hideki's mother
 * Yōko Kurita as Megumi Kōsaka, Yoshino's mother
 * Kazuko Katō as Miyako Okuno, Ichirō's mother
 * Momosuke Mizutani as Jirō Okuno, Ichirō's twin brother. He is a student of Shūmeikan High School)
 * Nobue Iketani as Mitsue Kobayashi, Maki's mother

Other students of Ryūzan High School

 * Akari Hori as Asumi Toda, an idol who repeatedly sends Maki e-mails from her workplace
 * Ayano Gunji as Saori Abe, Naomi's friend. She had requested Naomi to introduce her to Yūsuke

Others

 * Hiroki Murakami as Yoshio Tanaka, one of Nozomi's suitors. He is a law graduate of Tokyo University. An arrogant man, he is proud of his academic and social standing even though he is neither handsome nor fit.
 * Mitsuru Karahashi as Yasushi Sawamatsu, the second suitor of Nozomi. A high school dropout, he is rather simple-minded with "awesome" as his favorite phrase and a very limited vocabulary. His favorite pastime is playing Pachinko and he only has a part-time job.

Theme song
The theme song of the show is "Realize" by melody. and the insert song "Colorful" by Tomohisa Yamashita.