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Non-mama White Paper

2016 · 1 season

A quiet, thoughtful workplace drama about a woman redefining her worth, carried by small emotional beats and everyday struggles.

Genres
Drama
Starring
Honami Suzuki, Momoko Kikuchi, Makiko Watanabe
Overview
Reiko Doi, 49 years old non-mama who had got divorced, works for an advertising agency. She is dropped from promotion ladder because it's easier for men to be on the fast track, and she feels small because the general public prefer working mother to non-mama. She feels that both the public and the agency are embarrassed with how to treat her these days. At such time, she is notified that she will be a chief director. She decides to work hard and to connect people through her career, she couldn't connect her life to next generation, though. But managerial position is much harder than she expected. You can find many un ignorable topics in this drama. Regret and freedom without a child, joy and suffering of managerial position, hope and puzzlement for the last romance... This is a drama that delivers a message: "your life is also shining", through such feelings of non-mamas.

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Genres
Drama
Starring
Honami Suzuki, Momoko Kikuchi, Makiko Watanabe
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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
    • identity
    • gender
    • ambition
    • loneliness
    Places
    • workplace
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour3
    Realism8
    Romance3
    Tension4
    Darkness4
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Starring
    Honami Suzuki, Momoko Kikuchi, Makiko Watanabe, Nao Minamisawa, Takahiro Hamada, Akane Hotta, Atsuhiro Sakamoto, Shūichirō Masuda
    Length
    1 seasons, 7 episodes
    Network
    Tokai Television Broadcasting

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