Divorce Chaser Season 1

Synopsis

One half of the famous Japanese comedic duo – Cocorico – Naoki Tanaka plays our off-beat protagonist who is a masterfully talented lawyer, full of mystique and mystery. His whole business is predicated on the opportunity costs between men and women’s unfortunate relationships. His intention is never focused on using money to buy back their once lost love, but more from helping them achieve a fresh start on life and love. However the intertwined, complex relationships will test our talented lawyer as he litigates through these trouble and perhaps troubles of his own…

Main Cast

Seminosuke Murasugi

Fumiya

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Naomi Watanabe

Unemoto Kurumi

Age : 36 | Popularity : 5%

Jun Miho

Tayama Yoshio

Age : N/A | Popularity : 51%

Akiko Yada

Kurasawa Nanae

Age : 45 | Popularity : 3%

Naoki Tanaka

Hakamada Yukio

Age : 53 | Popularity : 5%

Chisun

Togawa Yuko

Age : 41 | Popularity : 6%

Nana Yamada

Sara Mizutani

Age : 32 | Popularity : 3%

Episodes

Episode 1

10 January 2014 - Plays a stupid woman, give me 10 million

The case of Kurasawa Kanae (Housewife), who is a homemaker aspiring to become a manga illustrator. Her husband is in charge of finances; he forces her to make do with an oppressively low allowance. In the shadows he refers to her as “the dumb woman,” and from day to day she is forced to endure cold verbal abuse. And then, Kanae’s husbands illicit affair is brought to light ...

Episode 2

17 January 2014 - Strikes back! W affair trail of cheating housewife

A beautiful homemaker Kodera Kiyomi is vexed by her cheating husband. While she is out gathering evidence of her husband’s affair, she comes to the realization of double-adultery. As a woman, she cannot bring herself to forgive Togawa Yuko who has a happy family of her own. Due to Hakamada’s legal counsel, she decides to sue Yuko for compensation, even while Yuko denies the illicit affair.

Episode 3

24 January 2014 - Middle aged divorce...bitter resentment of long-standing housewife

Saionji Fumiko (Housewife) had already decided to divorce her senior citizen husband, one year ago; she had to endure his moral harassment for decades. She has been saving up money from teaching flower-arrangement class, and has enough for the separation, to go live on her own. Her husband is a university professor, and his illicit affair with one of his students gets exposed.

Episode 4

31 January 2014 - Timid husband monster wife fierce counterattack

Ichikawa Tomohiro has reached a breaking point in his marriage to a monster wife, and comes to the Law Office of Hakamada for legal counsel. Most of his salary vanishes in expenditures of his wife’s purchases of expensive brand-name items and extravagant spas. In the meantime, he endures her domestic violence and moral harassment.

Episode 5

07 February 2014 - Crisis of Hakamada law firm!?

Work doesn’t come around much at the Law Office of Hakamada, but suddenly there’s a crowd lined up to see him. At the end of Nonomura Kanae’s syndicated manga, the landlord Toyama Yoshie had taken initiative to place an ad.

Episode 6

14 February 2014 - Request to settle parent-child feud

Hakamada Yukio wins compensation lawsuits for his clients, so they can start their lives over. But who is his client this episode, but his own long-lost father? According to Yukio’s half-sister Suwa Natsuki, their 72-year old father Suwa Kozo is married for the third time to a woman 45 years younger than him.

Episode 7

22 February 2014 - 40 year old single woman sneaks into unscrupulous marriage agency, watch out!

The matchmaking company GET MARRIAGE has a list of people who are most unlikely to get married; they have a scam going of obstructing those members to keep squeezing membership fees from them. Yukawa Natsuko, the chief editor of a restauranteur magazine, is getting suspicious that they can't find her a marriage match, no matter how many dates they set her up with.

Episode 8

28 February 2014 - Child custody mediation...Ikumen stay at home dad vs career woman wife

Compensation lawyer Hakamada Yukio becomes friends with little kids? And who is the client this time but their father, Sakagami Takeshi? He was laid off a year ago and has been a stay-at-home dad, but in the meantime his career-wife Izumi has stuck him with a divorce notice.

Episode 9

07 March 2014 - Kontsuma vs Kontsuma 2 wives fierce battle

Nishijima Aoi has been living with her common-law husband for two years, and he suddenly decides to call off the relationship. It seems her husband has found another woman...

Episode 10

14 March 2014 - Daughter-in-law determined to get alimony from relentless bullying Mother-in-law

This episode's client is a victim of her mother-in-law Tomoe's incessant bullying: Yoshioka Miki slaves from morning till night at the tavern, like a laborer in a sweat shop. She invites Miki's husband's ex-girlfriend to their home, and even makes humiliating comparisons in front of her.

Episode 11

21 March 2014 - Fate! Final battle with talented female lawyer nemesis

This episode’s client is Kurasawa Yoshihito, none other than assistant Nonomura Kanae’s ex-husband. You’d think he was caught cheating again, but no, it’s a case of double-adultery by his second wife Shiori, who is getting sued for compensation by the cheating-partner’s wife. Kanae is in a tangled state of mind...

Episode 12

28 March 2014 - Fate! Final battle with talented female lawyer nemesis

Divorce lawyer Hakamada Yukio gave a warning to the formidable attorney Karasuma Keiko, his ex-lover. But Keiko is no easy opponent, even as he tries to gather evidence with his assistant Nonomura Kanae, to prove that Honjo Takashi was the aggressor in the affair.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Nakama Toshihiko
Sound	Original Music Composer	Akio Izutsu
Writing	Original Concept	Uemi Ayumi
Directing	Assistant Director	Eiji Kametani
Camera	Director of Photography	Tomohiko Deguchi
Editing	Editor	Yoshifumi Fukazawa
Department	Role	Name

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