Hiru no Sento Zake (2016)

Season 1

42-year-old Utsumi Takayuki works for Second Division of Hinode Advertising's Planning and Sales Department. He was transferred from the General Affairs Department one year ago, but he keeps delivering the worst sales performance. Utsumi is not eloquent, poor at dealing with things and is a pushover too. He always gets reprimanded by his boss Dozono Shoko. His only pleasure is skipping work, going to the public bath in the day on a weekday and gulping a beer down his dry throat after that. Utsumi cannot resist the temptation when he sees a public bath during working hours despite his sense of guilt. On this day too, he calls his company with the excuse that he has urgent business and walks through the door of a public bath in high spirits. When he pays the fee, takes off his suit and enters the bath, the best moment awaits him.

Released April 7, 2016 Episode 360 min None+

Genres: Comedy

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.japanese-drama, imdb.based-on-essay, imdb.based-on-manga, imdb.live-action-manga-adaptation, imdb.live-action-adaptation + 8 more, imdb.beer, imdb.bar, imdb.life, imdb.public-bath, imdb.salesperson, imdb.advertising-company, tmdb.office-worker, tmdb.salaryman

Network: TV Tokyo

Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

IMDb

8.1

/120/

Trakt

/10/

TMDb

/4/

Yûki Saitô
Director

Akiko Yagi

Tokio Emoto

Daichi Kaneko

Seiji Shioyama

Shigeyuki Totsugi

Aika Hirota

S1E1 - "Tsurunoyu Bath, Followed By Fried Liver"

Takayuki Utsumi (Shigeyuki Totsugi), yet again with the least sales this month, heads out searching for new clients... only to find the chimney of Tsurunoyu Bath, a bath house found in Koiwa, Tokyo. He is still working, but is tempted. And in bright daylight, on a weekday, he flips through the entrance curtains, and into the bath house he goes.

April 8, 2016, midnight