- Drama: Inconvenient Benriya (literal title)
- Romaji: Fuben na Benriya
- Japanese: 不便な便利屋
- Director: Takayuki Suzui
- Writer: Takayuki Suzui
- Network: TV Tokyo
- Episodes: 12
- Release Date: April 10 – June 26, 2015
- Runtime: Fridays 24:12-24:52
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Matsui runs a benriya (odd jobs for hire) in a small nameless Hokkaido village. Umemoto has divorced 3 times. Screenwriter Takeyama (Masaki Okada) wants to go to Furano, but the bus to Furano becomes stranded due to a snowstorm. Takeyama stops at a bar to eat something, but at the bar he loses his wallet and cellphone. Takeyama is now obliged to stay in the small and nameless village.
Matsui, Umemoto and Takeyama are now all at Matsui’s Benriya.
Cast
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Masaki Okada | Kosuke Suzuki | Kenichi Endo | Eiji Moriyama | Reina Triendl |
Jun Takeyama | Hideo Matsui | Soichi Umemoto | Shuntaro Sakurada | Match Girl |
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Hiroyuki Morisaki | Mio Sakuma | Yoji Tanaka | Takashi Inoue |
Policeman Komori | Bar Customer | Taro Momono | Teruo Katurazawa |
Additional Cast Members:
- Saburo Tokito – Chauffeur (ep.1,11)
- Takuma Otoo – Director (ep.1)
- Kumiko Shiratori – Actress (ep.1)
- Yo Oizumi – Teahouse Employee (ep.2,7)
- Shingo Yanagisawa – Director of Criminal Affairs Division (ep.2)
- Rina Uchiyama – Edata (ep.4)
- Shigeyuki Totsugi – Bus Driver (ep.4)
- Ken Yasuda – Yakuza Motomatsu (ep.6)
- Ryosuke Takei – Ramen Restaurant Owner Tsubakihara (ep.6-8)
- Rio Yamashita – Kana Hayashi (ep.6-8)
- Megumi Sato – Matsui’s Fiance / Film Producer Kaede Kimoto (ep.7,12)
- Fumiyo Kohinata – Yakuza Boss Kimura (ep.9)
- Fuku Suzuki – Kajiyama (ep.11)
- Misako Tanaka – Eriko Takeyama (ep.11-12)