Kenchô no hoshi (Star Reformer) (The Star of Prefecture Government) (2006)

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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… More 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?