(0 vote(s), average: 0.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: 特上カバチ!! | Legal Eagle, First Class

Genre: Comedy, Work

Film Date: January, 2010

Japanese Drama Cast: Horikita Maki, Endo Kenichi , Sakurai Sho, Tamaru Maki, Watanabe Ikkei

Description: The story centers around the employees of a legal document firm. Tamura Katsuhiro is a young man with a strong sense of justice. Although he believes that the law isn't always right, he becomes an administrative scrivener with the goal of manipulating the law in order to protect the weak. On the other hand, Sumiyoshi Misuzu, a former delinquent who hates to lose and who is now a capable scrivener. Katsuhiro and Misuzu are always at odds, but they gradually come to understand each other.

(7 vote(s), average: 6.57 out of 10)

Alternative Title: 派遣のオスカル | Lady Oscar Works Temp | 『少女漫画』に愛を込めて | "Shojo Manga" ni Ai wo Komete

Genre: Comedy, Work

Film Date: October, 2009

Japanese Drama Cast: Takuma Seiko, Suzuki Anne, Sato Tomohito, Kaneko Sayaka, Tanaka Rena

Description: A story about a temporary-staff worker who finds refuge in the fantasy world of a comic, Rose of Versailles. Katsuko's mediocre days is put to an end when the son of her company president arrives at her office and lays out unreasonable a cost-cutting policy which upsets Katsuko. Her inner ear hears the voice of Oscar, the main character of "Rose of Versailles" who stands up for the people, and decides to take action against him to save her helpless colleagues.

(5 vote(s), average: 6.4 out of 10)

Alternative Title: 泣かないと決めた日

Genre: Work

Film Date: January, 2010

Japanese Drama Cast: Eikura Nana, Fujiki Naohito, Kaname Jun, Kawaguchi Haruna, Anne

Description: Miki Kakuta (Nana Eikura) graudates from a second-rate university and scores a job at the top company in her field. Miki then becomes an OL ("Office Lady"), but things turn for the worse for Miki. After a few trivial errors she becomes the target of bullying by her co-workers (even endures a fake webpage made about her).Her immediate boss Yukiko Sano (Yoshino Kimura) gives Miki the cold shoulder, co-worker Marika Tachibana (Anne Watanabe) acts as her friend but makes jokes about her behind her back, senior employee Shota Nakahara (Jun Kaname) seems reliable but Miki realizes that she should keep her distance, and her head boss Seichi Kirino (Naohito Fujiki) is absolutely indifferent to her. Through all of this Miki decides to tough it out and not run away from her job.

(1 vote(s), average: 5.0 out of 10)

Alternative Title: 働きマン

Genre: Romance, Work

Film Date: October, 2007

Japanese Drama Cast: Kanno Miho, Sada Mayumi, Sawamura Ikki, Yoshizawa Hisashi

Description: Hiroko Matsukata(Miho Kanno) is a super busy magazine editor. Just like any other 28-yearold woman, she enjoys going on dates with her boyfriend, fashion and her private life. But once she turns her switch into working mode, she sacrifices all that and dedicates her life to work. That’s when her colleagues refer to her as the Hataraki Man (working man). Her success at work however doesn’t give her total satisfaction. She constantly questions: “Why do I chose work over my boyfriend?” “What am I working for?” These are the questions all working people have asked themselves once, and the viewers can’t help relating themselves to Hiroko’s experiences.“Why do people work?” The viewers and the characters of this uplifting drama search for the answer through different types of working people, who all imply different answers to the question: a sense of accomplishment, fulfillment, mission, obligation, happiness, or…?