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Plot Summary:
Kenichi Endo, Ren Osugi, Tomorowo Taguchi, Susumu Terajima, Yutaka Matsushige and Ken Mitsuishi all receive offers to take part in a big budget drama series with a famous lead actor and world famous director. To study their roles and relationships, the director asks the six supporting actors to live together for 3 months at a share house. The actors begin their temporary living arrangement. An incident from 10 years ago though causes the actors to hold resentment.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
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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. --Tokyograph.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 37
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 70
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IMDB Votes: 9
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IMDB Votes: 28
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24
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IMDB Votes: 13
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A recently widowed, impoverished Orlando water park employee schemes and cons her way up the ranks of the multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme which ruined her financially in the first place.
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 141
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 122
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 249
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IMDB Votes: 15000
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Country: UK
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All of a sudden, Prime Minister Taizan and his carefree son Sho find their bodies switched around. They have no idea why nor how to turn back. Now Sho has to attend the Diet as Prime Minister. He cannot even read the words as he speaks as Prime Minister...but the diet members and the people are gradually moved by his straightforward opinions and things begin to change... Meanwhile, Taizan, the Prime Minister, is now a college student undergoing numerous job interviews. But he cannot pass the interview. And things become more confusing as he meets Sho’s ex-girlfriends.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 313
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IMDB Votes: 318
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
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IMDB Votes: 91
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IMDB Votes: 31
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IMDB Votes: 914
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IMDB Votes: 331
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
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IMDB Votes: 20
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IMDB Votes: 321
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Votes: 637
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
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