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This is Not a Business Expense!

2019 · 1 season

Quietly amusing and humane, turning mundane receipt checks into small windows on ordinary lives and hidden troubles.

Created by: Youichi Matsunaga, Shigekatsu Honda
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Mikako Tabe, Daiki Shigeoka, Sairi Ito

Overview: Sanako Moriwaka (Mikako Tabe) is single and works in the accounting department of a soap company. For her job, she checks receipts and bills. Each slip that she reviews, mentions only the dollar amount and a brief reason for the expense. When Sanako Moriwaka reviews the slips, she can often discern suspicious facts surrounding the expense or even troubles in the lives of the employee.

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Created by: Youichi Matsunaga, Shigekatsu Honda
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Mikako Tabe, Daiki Shigeoka, Sairi Ito

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: work
identity
isolation
class
morality
Places: workplace
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: procedural
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Humour	6
Realism	7
Romance	3
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Complexity	5
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Genres: comedy, drama
Created by: Youichi Matsunaga, Shigekatsu Honda, Satoru Nakajima
Written by: Naomi Hiruta, Chiho Watanabe, Hisako Fujihira
Starring: Mikako Tabe, Daiki Shigeoka, Sairi Ito, Renn Kiriyama, Airi Matsui, Hanae Kan, Akihiro Kakuta, Nana Katase
Length: 1 seasons, 10 episodes, 48 min each
Network: NHK
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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