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Monster Parent

2008 · 1 season

A crisp, satisfying procedural where a sharp lawyer untangles petty adult tantrums, giving small school battles the weight of courtroom drama.

Created by
Yoshinori Kobayashi
Genres
Drama, Family
Starring
Ryoko Yonekura, Yuta Hiraoka, Takuzo Kadono
Overview
Monster parents-a neologism that denotes parents who repeatedly make unreasonable demands to their children’s school and prevent it from functioning normally. Takamura Itsuki is the ace lawyer of a major law firm. One day, she is assigned on a case requested by a school board, and learns of the existence of "monster parents." She meets a parent who wants the school to fire a teacher with a dialect for fear that he may exert bad influence on her child, a parent who insists that her son get a regular position on the soccer team, a parent who refuses to pay the lunch fee because it doesn’t taste good and so on. She is, at first, reluctant about this case, but gradually becomes determined to solve the problems.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Created by
Yoshinori Kobayashi
Genres
Drama, Family
Starring
Ryoko Yonekura, Yuta Hiraoka, Takuzo Kadono
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • education
  • work
  • family
  • class
  • power
Places
  • school
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour4
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Genres
drama, family
Created by
Yoshinori Kobayashi
Starring
Ryoko Yonekura, Yuta Hiraoka, Takuzo Kadono, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Yoichi Nukumizu, Mayumi Hori, Hidekazu Mashima, Aoi Shimoyama
Length
1 seasons, 11 episodes, 46 min each
Network
Fuji TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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