JAPANESE DRAMA DATABASE: The Chef

The Chef

A resourceful freelance chef produces his fantastic fare under entertainingly unpredictable circumstances in the most unusual places.

A drama about a phantom Chef who works for the right price and a corrupted business that will do what they can to have them work for them. Unfortunately, the Chef seems to be a person with no caring emotion until an apprentice cook and a reporter enter his life. Anyways, the Phantom Chef...he is like a McGuyver chef while the apprentice who wants to be like him played by Kokkubun Taichi (Tokio) and reporter, Sendou Akiho, a resourceful freelance chef produces his fantastic fare under entertainingly unpredictable circumstances in the most unusual places.

STARRING: Higashiyama Noriyuki, Sendou Akiho, Kokkubun Taichi, Ide Kaoru, Kawashima Naomi, Kajirawa Zen, Morita Go, Miyake Ken, Emori Toru and more.
THEME SONG: "Chase the Chance" by Amuro Namie and "Oh!" by Shonentai
NETWORK: NTV
DURATION: October 10 through December 16, 1995
REVIEWS:

I liked the American show, "McGuyver"..."Chef" is like a cooking McGuyver trying to find ways to cook things when things are stolen or no cooking utencils can be used. - KNDY