Complete (J-Drama) Shomuni
Title: ショムニ
Title: ショムニ
Title (romaji): Shomuni
Title (English): Power Office Girls
Genre: Comedy
Broadcast network: Fuji
Air time: Wednesday 21:00
Season 1
Broadcast period: 1998, April 15 to 1998, July 01
Theme song: Sugao na Mama De by Izam with Astral Love
Synopsis
The stories revolve around the Office Ladies of General Affairs department 2 (Shomu ni, or GA-2) in a large multinational company called Manpan Corporation.
GA-2 is called "the graveyard for female office ladies", simply because it is the place where female employees are dumped should they mess up big time elsewhere. Jobs include replacing used toilet rolls, changing light-bulbs, organizing company outings among other menial stuff. As an added incentive, their department is located in the nether regions of the company - in the basement, and is in fact a disused store room.
Cast
Makiko Esumi as Chinatsu Tsuboi
Mai Hosho as Ume Marubashi
Kotomi Kyono as Sawako Tsukahara
Atsuko Sakurai as Miyashita Kana
Keiko Toda as Azusa
Yumiko Takahashi as Rie Himukai
Naho Toda as Misono Sugita
Ken Ishiguro as Tomohiro Ukyou
Leo Morimoto as Kouji Inoue
Kazuyuki Aijima as Eiji Mitamura
Toshihito Itoh as Nonomura (Personnel Department Sectional chief)
Katsumi Takahashi as Terasaki (Personnel Department Manager)
Isaki Kitahara as Satomi Mizuochi
Ayako Tanabe as Hitomi Yoshida
Miki Kobayashi as Akane Kagawa
Machiko Washio as Yoshiko Sawada
Kenichi Yajima as lawyer
Mitsuro Fukikoshi
Sei Hiraizumi
Special 1
Title (romaji): Shomuni Special 1
Title (English): Power Office Girls Special 1
Episodes: 1
Genre: Comedy
Broadcast network: Fuji
Broadcast period: 1998, October 07
Air time: Wednesday 21:00-23:14
Special 2
Title: 新春ドラマスペシャル ショムニ
Title (romaji): Shomuni Special 2
Title (English): Power Office Girls Special 2
Episodes: 1
Genre: Comedy
Broadcast network: Fuji
Broadcast period: 2000, January 02
Air time: Sunday 21:04-23:30
Season 2
Episodes: 11
Broadcast period: 2000, April 12 to 2000, June 28
Theme Song: ONE WAY DRIVE by Esumi Makiko
Synopsis
Shomuni 2 is a sequel from Shomuni, a popular comedic drama serial. It continues where it left off when the female employees from GA-2, deemed "the graveyard of all female employees" for its inane daily job routines of changing light bulbs, used toilet rolls and organising flower appreciation nights, saved the company in the final episode of Shomuni.
However, Manpan Corporation has changed. The multi-national company is now run in a totalitarian fashion. Closed circuit cameras are placed in every nook and cranny of the company to monitor the daily routines of employees. Even the basins in the toilets are not spared (though, obviously, the cubicles are) from scrutiny. This is a result of the Personnel Department, led by the evil Terasaki and Nonomura, who are (again) seeking to find a reason to save up on company budget.
Cast
Makiko Esumi as Chinatsu Tsuboi
Mai Hosho as Ume Marubashi
Kotomi Kyono as Sawako Tsukahara
Atsuko Sakurai as Miyashita Kana
Keiko Toda as Azusa
Yumiko Takahashi as Rie Himukai
Ikki Sawamura as Shintarou Kamiya
Katsumi Takahashi as Terasaki (Personnel Department Manager)
Toshihito Itoh as Nonomura (Personnel Department Sectional chief)
Kazuyuki Aijima as Eiji Mitamura
Naho Toda as Misono Sugita
Ken Ishiguro as Tomohiro Ukyou
Leo Morimoto as Kouji Inoue
Isamu Ichikawa as Director
Isaki Kitahara as Satomi Mizuochi
Ayako Tanabe as Hitomi Yoshida
Miki Kobayashi as Akane Kagawa
Takashi Sasano (ep2)
Ken Ishiguro as Ichiro Yamada (ep2)
Naomi Hosokawa as Akie Nagasawa (ep3)
Kanako Fukaura as Kimiko Umebayashi (ep4)
Shigemitsu Ogi (ep5)
Ryuuji Harada - Takashi Nikaido (ep8)
Sei Hiraizumi
Ayako Kawahara
Season 3
Also known as: Power Office Girls 3 - The Final Chapter
Episodes: 12
Broadcast period: 2002, July 03 to 2002, September 18
Ending song: Taiyou wa Shizumanai by The Alfee
Synopsis
Tsuboi Chinatsu, the most hated GA-2 by the Personnel Department, has resigned from Manpan Corporation. During the wedding reception, she asks four of the five female GA-2 employees (all of them except Tsukahara Sawako) whether they wished to have a little bet on whether Tsukahara Sawako would lose her virginity by the end of the month (30th of June). At the same time, Sawako is made the new "de facto" leader of GA-2, and she struggles to fill the boots left behind by Chinatsu.
Cast
Makiko Esumi as Chinatsu Tsuboi
Mai Hosho as Ume Marubashi
Kotomi Kyono as Sawako Tsukahara
Atsuko Sakurai as Miyashita Kana
Keiko Toda as Azusa
Yumiko Takahashi as Rie Himukai
Leo Morimoto as Inoue
Ken Ishiguro as Tomohiro Ukyo
Naho Toda as Misono Sugita
Ikki Sawamura as Security Guard
Katsumi Takahashi as Terasaki (Personnel Department Manager)
Saori Takizawa as Reika Uemura
Yuka Hoshino as Nakayama
Hiromi Kitagawa as Wakana Shimakura
Yoko Moriguchi as Reiko Takamisawa
Koji Yamamoto
Season Forever
Also known as: Power Office Girls Forever
Episodes: 1
Release Date: 2003, January 01
Synopsis
This is the TV special made as the final episode of the series. - 'Shomuni' is an abbreviation of 'Shomu Nika' (Miscellanious Works Divison 2) which is regarded as a dead-end of one's career, waste-disposal of useless workers in a trading company Manpan Shouji. All the women of Shomuni have the feeling that the year 2003 seems to be a good year. However, an ex-employee of Manpan Shouji comes with a hande-made bomb and takes them as hostages...
Cast
Makiko Esumi as Chinatsu Tsuboi
Mai Hosho as Ume Marubashi
Kotomi Kyono as Sawako Tsukahara
Atsuko Sakurai as Miyashita Kana
Keiko Toda as Azusa
Yumiko Takahashi as Rie Himukai
Leo Morimoto as Kouji Inoue
Ikki Sawamura as Shintarou Kamiya
Naho Toda as Misono Sugita
Ken Ishiguro as Tomohiro Ukyou
Kazuyuki Aijima as Eiji Mitamura
Isamu Ichikawa as Director
Katsumi Takahashi as Terasaki (Personnel Department Manager)
Hiromichi Sakuraba
Saori Takizawa
Yuka Hoshino
Hiromi Kitagawa
Takeshi Masu
Bokuzo Masana
Tae KimuraSeason 4
Also known as: Shomuni 2013
Episodes: 10
Broadcast period: 2013, July 10 to
2013, September 18
Theme Song: Pink no Dangan by Serena
Synopsis
Shomuni 2013 sees a total change in the members
of Shomuni, with the exception of Esumi Makiko who will reprise her role of the
feisty Tsuboi Chinatsu. It has been 10 years since Shomuni had been dissolved
in Manpan Corporation, and the department members have all gone on into
retirement. Tsuboi Chinatsu's whereabouts is known to nobody.
Due to the long economic downturn suffered by
Japanese companies, restructuring is a common occurrence nowadays. Manpan is no
different from the rest. Maruyama Shiori is an Olympic gold-medal hopeful in
the pole vault event. Manpan had recruited as part of their PR advertising, but
due to severe costs-cutting measures, the track and field club in Manpan was
dissolved, and Shiori is deemed to have no value to the company anymore. In
order to make Shiori, who doesn't even have the skills to be a telephone
operator, leave on her own accord, the company started tweeting bad things
about her. Poor Shiori is now an outcast in the company and no one totally
dares to be seen with her at all. No one, except for the team of OL, made up of
Minami Madoka, Abe Reiko, Kojima Masuko and Fukuda Masuyo, who appear before
her one by one.
One day, Shiori comes across a lady who seemed to
be running away from someone. The next day, she sees the same lady again at the
company. The lady is none other than the legendary Tsuboi Chinatsu! Has
Chinatsu rejoined the company again? What is the objective of the company and
also Chinatsu?
Cast
Esumi Makiko as
Tsuboi Chinatsu
Becky as Minami
Madoka
Honda Tsubasa as
Maruyama Shiori
Ando Sakura as
Abe Reiko
Mori Kanna as
Kojima Misuzu
Horiuchi Keiko as
Fukuda Masuyo
Miura Shohei as
Samon Daisuke
Katase Nana as
Danjo Miki
Masu Takeshi as
Maekawa Susumu
Suzuki Kosuke as
Shimoochiai Koichi
Yasuda Ken as
Hoshino Kenji
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