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Zeicho: There's a Reason for "I Can't Pay"

2023 · 1 season

A gentle, human look at debt and bureaucracy, balancing small comic moments with quiet compassion for people in trouble.

Created by
Yui Shin
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Fuma Kikuchi, Anna Yamada, Jin Shirasu
Overview
Aiba Soichiro works in the tax department at city hall. His job is to get people to pay taxes that are past due. For that, he evaluates their financial situation and visits their home. Sometimes, he seizes their property and urges them to pay their tax. While dealing with tax issues, he approaches them with his heart and tries to find ways to help them. Soichiro Aiba used to be a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Finance, but for some reason, he quit his job there and began working as a tax collector.

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Created by
Yui Shin
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Fuma Kikuchi, Anna Yamada, Jin Shirasu
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • work
  • morality
  • family
  • healing
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama, comedy
Created by
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Written by
Hayato Miura
Starring
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Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 45 min each
Network
Nippon TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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