48 minSeason 1 • Episode 10
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Satoru Matsudo moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the industry, but his luck begins to change when he finds an airplane ticket belonging to a talent agency CEO. Time passes, and Satoru makes a name for himself as an actor. He gets a call from America. Hoping it is a Hollywood offer, he instead hears about his estranged older brother.
Acting
Taiga Nakano's perfect awkward everyman energy
Writing
Sharp observational humor masking genuine pain
Creator
Shin Adachi
Taiga Nakano
Satoru Matsudo
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
Takeshi Matsudo
Sairi Ito
Higa Yui
Hiroko Yakushimaru
President Yamamura
Anne Suzuki
Hitachi Manager
Morio Kazama
Heizo Matsudo
Mako Ishino
Kiku Matsudo
Jun Kaname
Tsukamoto
Shunsuke Daitoh
Sugita
Shima Ise
Sagara
Yukiya Kitamura
Hirayama Heigo
Tamae Ando
Yamashita
Kana Kita
Yoshimira
Oshirō Maeda
Nakata
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 拾われた男 ('the picked-up man') carries double meaning — Satoru is both 'found' as talent and 'picked up' like discarded trash.
Based on actor Shin Adachi's semi-autobiographical novel about his own failed acting career in Tokyo before becoming a writer.
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