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8.0 1 Seasons • 11 Episodes

Always Smiling - Season 1

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 Cast

  • Yuko Takeuchi

    Yuko Takeuchi

    Yumi Kurasawa

  • Hiroshi Abe

    Hiroshi Abe

    Reijiro Sakurai

  • Hidetoshi Nishijima

    Hidetoshi Nishijima

    Kazuya Yuzuhara

  • Katsumi Takahashi

    Katsumi Takahashi

    Eikichi Koizumi

  • Rie Shibata

    Rie Shibata

    Yoshie Yoneda

  • Atsuko Sakurai

    Atsuko Sakurai

    Natsuko Ohara

  • Takanori Jinnai

    Takanori Jinnai

    Koichi Kurasawa

  • Yoko Nogiwa

    Yoko Nogiwa

    Misako Yuzuhara

  • Mao Miyaji

    Mao Miyaji

    Megumi Isaka

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.

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