Star Reformer
2006 · 2h 11m · N/A
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Hiroshi Nishitani
Overview
Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel exchange training between public and private businesses. This personnel exchange training is part of some big prefecture project. This project is very big, so success of this personnel exchange training will probably determine his career. Nomura goes to a supermarket called "Mantendo".
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