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Top League

2019 · 1 season

A slow-burning, talky procedural that immerses you in newsroom rivalries and backroom deals, rewarding close attention with quiet tension.

Genres
Drama
Starring
Tetsuji Tamayama, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Yui Sakuma
Overview
While political journalist Naoki Matsuoka is working his way up to the "top league," a small circle of privileged journalists with special access to top politicians, his old colleague turned newsweekly journalist Yuji Sakai is hunting down a dark secret involving political corruption and mafia.

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Genres
Drama
Starring
Tetsuji Tamayama, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Yui Sakuma
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • corruption
  • power
  • media
  • justice
  • conspiracy
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
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
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama
Written by
Eriko Shinozaki
Starring
Tetsuji Tamayama, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Yui Sakuma, Takanori Jinnai, Koyuki, Kaoru Kobayashi, Shiro Sano, Manami Hashimoto
Music
Shunpei Ishige, Kei Haneoka
Length
1 seasons, 6 episodes, 50 min each
Network
WOWOW Prime
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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