Season 1 • Episode 11
LatestLabor Standards Inspectors... are you aware of their existence? For the sake of the 52 million actively employed people across the nation, the government had set up this body to help ensure that there is safety at workplaces. Danda Rin, is an example of a very diligent and strict inspector. She doesn't compromise when it comes to the rules. The story opens with the transfer of Danda Rin to the new Labor Standards Inspector office. "She had caused her boss at her ex-office to go bald!!" is the rumor that accompanies her to her new office. Danda Rin is someone who doesn't do things in half measures, which is totally unlike the laidback male colleagues in the office. "Unpaid overtime", "Managers in name only", "Power harassment by managers"; these are all the things she fights against!
Acting
Yuko Takeuchi's terrifying sweetness — she smiles while destroying lives.
Writing
Every case feels ripped from depressing headlines you ignored.
Production
Mundane offices become battlegrounds through sheer tension.
Yuko Takeuchi
Rin Danda
Tori Matsuzaka
Kazuya Minamisanjo
Kazuki Kitamura
Ikuo Doteyama
Shunsuke Kazama
Umi Kurumizawa
Kenji Mizuhashi
Yuji Onda
Reina Triendl
Ruriko Komiya
Yoko Ohshima
Masako Ota
Chikako Kaku
Hiromi Aiba
Naomi Nishida
Midori Konno
Mako Ishino
Kyoko Minamisanjo
Koji Ohkura
Shoji Tanaka
Shiro Sano
Shigeo Manabe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yuko Takeuchi tragically died in 2020; this role became one of her most beloved, embodying the exact fierce warmth she was known for off-screen.
The manga source material and 2013 adaptation coincided with Japan's 'karoshi' (death by overwork) becoming a national conversation; real labor inspectors reportedly watched the show.
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