Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire.
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Takeshi Kaga Kaori Momoi Hiromi Iwasaki Mitsunori Isaki Akira Emoto Midori Kiuchi Akiko Kazami Hiroyuki Konishi Michiko Shimizu Shin Nakano Yoshi Katō Jun Tatara Kōen Okumura Michio Kida Chigusa Tsuyuhara Imari Tsuji Kazuko Imai Mari Torigoe Toshiya Sakai Yutaka Ikejima Baiken Jukkanji Koichi Ueda Takashi Tsumura Jun Takada Yasuo Uematsu Junko Idonuma Yoshimi Nakajima Toyofumi Nishimura Misuzu Higashiyama Kei Takyo Yoko Emori Naoto Takenaka Yukijiro Hotaru Lupin Suzuki Koji Yamaguchi Kazuyo Ezaki Yukiko Tachibana Mikiko Miki Kenji Kobayashi Kiichi Nosaka Tokuhisa Yamashita Tatsumi Nikamoto Bengal
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