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Universal Ad Agency: We Pitch Your Life

2017 · 1 season

A quiet, grounded workplace drama about small hopes in a fading town, more gentle and human than flashy.

Genres: Drama
Starring: Ikki Sawamura, Emi Wakui, Jun Kaname

Overview: Sugiyama (Ikki Sawamura) used to be the most popular copywriter at the largest advertising agency. He quit his job there to open up his own advertising agency, but his company doesn't do very well. He decides to move his company to a dead shopping district of a port town in decline. Even though the port town is lifeless and in serious decline, people go to see Sugiyama with small requests. Sugiyama begins his struggle as a small advertising agency.

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Genres: Drama
Starring: Ikki Sawamura, Emi Wakui, Jun Kaname

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: work
ambition
class
identity
healing
Places: small town
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama
Starring: Ikki Sawamura, Emi Wakui, Jun Kaname, Nana Katase, Jingi Irie
Music: Atsushi Hirasawa
Length: 1 seasons, 7 episodes
Network: TV Tokyo
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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