Silent Poor: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Silent poor... the poor and needy whose cries for help are drowned out in today's bustling society. Their existence is spreading rapidly across the nation, and as such, the government decided to set up a body to help them. Nationwide, there are now people called Community Social Workers (CSW), and their jobs are to attend to the poor and needy. One such person is Satomi Ryo, and she works at the Shitamachi area's Council of Welfare. The people that she meets in her busy working life are people afflicted with juvenile dementia, those who have shunned society and locked themselves up in their rooms, the homeless... generally people who are in despair over life and the fate dealt to them. Ryo herself had been down the lonely road before, and as a way to pull herself out of her depression, she decided to work as a CSW, in order to help others like her. She strongly believes that one can always...

Series details

• Title: Silent Poor
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2014-04-08
• Final broadcast date listed: 2014-06-03
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NHK
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 40 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 21627
• IMDb ID: tt3550940
• TVDB ID: 280500

Cast and credited roles

• Kyoko Fukada — Satomi Ryo

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2014-04-08; final listed air date 2014-06-03; episode order: 9.

Source and licence

Adapted from Silent Poor on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.