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I Turn

2019 · 1 season

A tense, wry workplace drama where a demoted salaryman's small mistake drags him into the orbit of dangerous criminals.

Created by
Eiji Uchida
Genres
Drama
Overview
45-year-old Mitsuo Komae works for an advertising company. He gets demoted from the head office in Tokyo to a branch office in the province. He has to leave his wife and daughter in Tokyo to work at the branch office. There, Mitsuo Komae begins work as the branch office manager which only has 2 employees. Needing to pay for the mortgage on his house and support his student daughter, he seeks ways to increase sales. One day, Mitsuo Komae receives a phone call from a client. The client is CEO Ryuzaki. Mitsuo Komae’s branch office made leaflets for CEO Ryuzaki's company, but a silly mistake was done in the leaflets. CEO Ryuzaki is furious. Making things even worse, CEO Ryuzaki is a yakuza. Mitsuo Komae is in big trouble.
How it feels
Dark, tense, satirical and cynical. Measured and needs your attention.
About
Work, power, family, class
Content
Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note
Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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Created by
Eiji Uchida
Genres
Drama
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 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
  • power
  • family
  • class
  • survival
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour4
Realism7
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

Cast

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Eiji Uchida
Starring
Arata Furuta, Airi Suzuki, Misato Morita, Tsuyoshi Muro, Daichi Watanabe, Kei Tanaka, Katsuya Maiguma, Kin'ya Kikuchi
Music
Taro Makido
Length
1 seasons, 12 episodes, 30 min each
Network
TV Tokyo
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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