Sales Department Manager Natsuko Kira: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Kira Natsuko led a busy life as a successful creative director at an advertising agency. She got married just before turning 40, then put her career on hold for maternity and parental leave. Three years later, she returns to work and she is ready to get back into the swing of things. However, due to the changes within the company that happened while she was away, she gets assigned as a director of the sales department, and not of the creative department. What await for her in her new position are co-workers who don't trust her and a series of issues that erupt as she scrambles to juggle both work and her family.

Series details

• Title: Sales Department Manager Natsuko Kira
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Family, Romance
• Premiere date: 2016-07-21
• Final broadcast date listed: 2016-09-22
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Fuji TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 56 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 18842
• TVDB ID: 314343

Cast and credited roles

• Nanako Matsushima — Natsuko Kira
• Matsuda Ryuhei — Keisuke Takagi

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2016-07-21; final listed air date 2016-09-22; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

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