Shomuni (1998)
Synopsis
Shomuni, that's the common name given to General Affairs Section 2 of a trading company. Here are six women who have ended up in this department known as "the dump" for office ladies. But Chinatsu Tsuboi (Makiko Esumi) declares that the value of woman is equal to the number of men. With her as the central focus they create a totally new type of office lady drama that does away with those heartless men still caught up in worn-out social ideas and the class system within the company.
First Air Date: 1998-04-15
Last Air Date: 2013-09-18
Number of Seasons: 4
Number of Episodes: 46
Networks: Fuji TV
Top Cast
- Makiko Esumi as Chinatsu Tsuboi
- Atsuko Sakurai as Kana Miyashita
- Keiko Toda as Azusa Tokunaga
- Yumiko Takahashi as Rie Himukai
- Kotomi Kyono as Sawako Tsukuhara
- Mai Hosho as Ume Maruhashi
- Leo Morimoto as Koji Inoue
- Ken Ishiguro as Tomohiro Ukyo
- Katsumi Takahashi as Torao Terasaki
- Naho Toda as Misono Sugita [Secretary]
Seasons
Specials (1998)
Three TV movies/specials: Shomuni Special 1 (aired on October 7, 1998), Shomuni Special 2 (aired on January 2, 2000), and Shomuni Forever (aired on January 1, 2003), round off the drama series. In the end, each individual leave GA-2 2 months apart from one another. Tsukahara is last.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Shomuni Special 1
This time, Shomuni faces off against the formidable president's wife, Sayuri (Nogawa Yoko), who lives by formality, customs, and manners. And Azusa's "100-year love" gets involved in the mix.
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Ep. 2: Shomuni: New Year Special 2
As the year 2000 approaches, Manpan has contracted a team of computer experts to counter the anticipated threat of malfunctions to the system when the Y2K bug hits. Meanwhile, Terasaki and Nonomura are about to deliver the dreaded Black Card (a lay-off notice) to a member of the staff, but to whom? When Chief Inoue mysteriously vanishes, Shomuni are left without the key to the safe, which contains their tickets for a relaxing New Year trip to the Onsen (Hot Springs). An infestation of rats is in the building and Shomuni must lay traps, but what kind of rat will they catch?
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Ep. 3: Shomuni Forever
As the New Year dawns, a sequence of dreams reveals a significant set of numbers to the girls of GA2. Manpan hopes that a new medical scheme will bring global expansion, but could there be a debt to pay? As the fortune of the company increases, so too does the threat from malignant external forces. Crime Prevention Training is clearly mandatory. Ukyo seems strangely detached during Manpan's finest hour, but why? Time is precious to many people, in many different ways.
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