AKA
Kenchô no hoshi
Star of the Prefectural Government


Summary
Nomura Satoru (Oda Yuji) is an elite young bureaucrat on his way to the top. Not only does he have a large seaside development in progress, but he's due to marry the beautiful daughter of a rich and influential businessman. Satoru is humbled, however, when he's asked to connect with the common folk via a period of service in a local supermarket named Mantendo. Satoru initially clashes with his trainer, a no-nonsense part-timer named Ninomiya (Shibasaki Kou) who has little use for the obviously arrogant Satoru. Not that it matters to Satoru. He's too busy exercising his superiority - until one indignity after the next reduce him to a shadow of his inflated former self. Now at rock bottom, can Satoru regain his self-esteem and - with the help of former nemesis Ninomiya - work to save Mantendo?

Cast
Yuji Oda - Satoshi Nomura
Kou Shibasaki - Aki Ninomiya

Director
Hiroshi Nishitani
Writer
Shinsuke Sato (based on a novel by Nozomi Katsura)