Marusa!!
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Details
- Title: マルサ / Marusa
- Also Known As: Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau
- Episodes: 12
- Genre: Investigation
- Air time: 21:00
- Viewership:
- Broadcast network: Fuji TV
- Broadcast period: 2003-04-08 to 2003-06-24
- Theme Song: Hoshimura Mai - GET HAPPY
Synopsis
The Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau is made up of a few investigative divisions. As the name suggests, the ranking in terms of prestige, goes hand-in-hand with the division's number, with 1 being the elite team. This drama concentrates on the 3rd Division, which is led by Kuromachi Fujio. He has a small team of staff under him; Tsuburaya is the daughter of an ex-Marusa elite investigator, and she is basically the key person to all undercover investigations. Zaitsu Kazumi is the strategist in the team, while Yasuda is the one with all the technical know-how to come up with the gadgets required.
Every episode is a mini story on its own, with the 3rd Division team uncovering all the tax evasion tactics employed by all sorts of people. The tax evasion tactics are all very interesting and bizarre, but the undercover investigations to uncover them, are even more spectacular and unique.
Cast
- Esumi Makiko as Tsuburaya Kanako
- Kagawa Teruyuki as Zaitsu Kazumi
- Miyake Ken as Tominaga Mitsuru
- Azuma Mikihisa as Kuramochi Fujio
- Ikeda Maki as Hojo Chihiro
- Nagai Masaru as Takahata Riki
- Sato Jiro as Yasuda Nobuo
- Nekoze Tsubaki (猫背椿) as Kawase Ryoko
- Satoi Kenta as Nayatani Toshiaki
- Watari Tetsuya as Kokuryo Chikara
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Todayama Masashi (戸田山雅司 )
- Producer: Ando Kazuhisa (安藤和久)
- Director: Wakamatsu Setsuro (若松節朗)
- Music: Sumitomo Norihito (住友紀人)
Review
This is personally one of my favorite dramas, because of the unusual tax evasion cases.