[REVIEW] Tokkan

[sukaretto]

Tokkan
Japanese Drama

Episodes: 10

Genre: Drama, Comedy

Cast:

• Inoue Mao as Suzumiya Miki
• Kitamura Yukiya as Kagami Miyabi
• Suzuki Sawa as Nabeshima Yuuko
• Kinami Haruka as Nanbu Chisa
• Minami as Aizawa Megumi
• Ikeda Tetsuhiro as Kaneko Chojuro
• Okayama Hajime as Ikedo Norio
• Kasahara Hideyuki as Toru Kamaike
• Shiomi Sansei as Suzumiya Masujiro
• Iwamatsu Ryo as Kiyosato Hajime
• Wakamura Mayumi as Shirakawa Yoko

Synopsis:

     'Tokkan' tells a story of Suzumiya Miki (Inoue), a newbie tax collector who learns the strictness and difficulties of working through her job. Miki is called ‘Guuko’ because she often freezes up in front of her cold-hearted boss.

info credits: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Tokkan

Sukaretto says:
p.s. major spoilers coming up.
     at first i was like, who would make a drama about tax collectors? and then i hit my head and came back to reality. Japanese entertainment, they make dramas/movies about anything and everything.
     i like the what they did in the first half, one case in an episode overlapping a big case that stretched for 5 eps. i thought they'll do something like that again in the 2nd half but instead they did that dying-because-the-tax-collector-pressured-them-to-pay-up-taxes thing. that almost happened in the first ep too, but it wasn't a big of a deal back then. i hate the loopholes in other cases. like the 3 sisters' inheritance case. why would you take the 2 elder sis' taxes from the youngest sis and the mother when you can seize their property? hello?? or maybe i was just not paying attention again and missed a thing about their law?
     anyways. i still enjoyed watching this. the cinematography is perfect. Kagami reminds me so much of Sherlock. the arrogance, the voice, they bossiness. and that girl who played Nanbu, i thought she was Korean at first. and then i realized i watched her in some other dramas before and she doesn't look like that!

My Ratings: i'll give this 8/10 :)