Tokyo Poverty Girl

After her divorce, Kariya Mako returned to work as a contract editor for an economics magazine. There, she is ordered to be in charge of a serialization based on the theme of women in poverty. She interviews people living in various difficult situations, and it gradually makes her realize that this is a widespread problem that she herself is not entirely impervious to, as she is also someone dealing with employment instability while struggling to raise her children.

★ 9/10 · 2 TMDB audience ratings

Starring

• ShuriKariya Mako
• Takahiro MiuraSakita Yuji
• Momoko TanabeHirota Yuka
• Reika KirishimaKawakami Noriko
• Emma MiyazawaMitsui Keiko
• Machiko KochiMurakami Aoi
• Seira AnzaiIshioka Bautista Lisa
• Yasushi FuchikamiMochizuki Ryotaro

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