Happy Retirement
Oct 18 2015
•2h 0m
•Drama
Shintaro, an Assistant Bank Division Chief at the Financial Services Agency, had been working like a dog for 33 years. But just five years before he is due for retirement, his boss framed him for accepting bribes. Shintaro was forced to retire immediately and was parachuted into a public organization, JAMS (Japan Association of Medium and Small Enterprises). Instead of a happy retirement that he had dreamt of, his out-of-the-blue retirement triggers a complete family breakup. To everyone’s surprise, his job is “to do nothing” for an annual salary of ten million yen!
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Koichi Sato
Shintaro Higuchi

Ken Ishiguro
Tsutomu Otomo

Yuriko Ishida
Aoi Tachibana

Satoshi Jinbo
Nagata
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