Always Smiling (2003)

04/13/2003 (JP) • 43m

Drama, Comedy

Overview

Yumi, a 23-year-old office worker, is fired from her job out of the blue. A few days later, coming from a friend's wedding and having no time to change out of her kimono, she is rushing to an interview for a job at a publishing company. Yumi stumbles into the room, looking for somewhere to change out of her kimono, and finds popular comic book writer Reijiro Sakurai is having an editorial meeting with some staff. He is planning to lock himself away at a hot spring for the next three months to concentrate on his next project. Sakurai comments that if Yumi were to join him he wouldn't mind being away for so long..., and so their adventure begins.

Top Billed Cast

Yuko Takeuchi

Yumi Kurasawa

11 Episodes

Hiroshi Abe

Reijiro Sakurai

11 Episodes

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Kazuya Yuzuhara

11 Episodes

Katsumi Takahashi

Eikichi Koizumi

11 Episodes

Rie Shibata

Yoshie Yoneda

11 Episodes

Atsuko Sakurai

Natsuko Ohara

11 Episodes

Takanori Jinnai

Koichi Kurasawa

11 Episodes

Yoko Nogiwa

Misako Yuzuhara

11 Episodes

Mao Miyaji

Megumi Isaka

11 Episodes


Last Season

Season 1

2003 | 11 Episodes

Season 1 of Always Smiling premiered on April 13, 2003.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Scripted

Original Language

Japanese

Keywords

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