Watch "Banquet of the Lower Class" on Netflix Japan

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Actors:: Yoko Nogiwa, Hidekazu Mashima, Natsuki Kato, Ikkei Watanabe, Minami, Hitomi Kuroki

Categories:: Japanese TV Shows, Japanese TV Dramas, Japanese TV Family Dramas

A middle-class housewife tries to steer her high school dropout son in an upwardly mobile direction but is frustrated by his lack of ambition.

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Yoko Nogiwa, Hidekazu Mashima, Natsuki Kato, Ikkei Watanabe, Minami, Hitomi Kuroki

Banquet of the Lower Class: Season 1

Season 1 of Banquet of the Lower Class has 8 episodes.

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Episode 1 ^{Episode 1}

Yumiko worries about her son Sho who has a permanent part-time job. To her, his engagement to equally unambitious Tamao is a fall to the lower class.

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Episode 2 ^{Episode 2}

Tamao leaves an awful first impression on Yumiko, making her panic even more. Her daughter lands a job while her husband hears a nasty rumor at work.

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Episode 3 ^{Episode 3}

Sho rejects his grandmother’s offer of money to study abroad. He lends his health insurance card to Tamao’s brother, ending up in unforeseen trouble.

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Episode 4 ^{Episode 4}

Yumiko will approve Sho’s marriage if Tamao becomes a doctor. Yumiko urges Sho to study with the charismatic tutor Shimada. He visits Shimada but...

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Episode 5 ^{Episode 5}

Yumiko is shocked Shimada will tutor Tamao, not Sho. Kana brings her boyfriend home. Yumiko lies to him that Sho is trying to get into medical school.

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Episode 6 ^{Episode 6}

Kana, pregnant, will marry Kitazawa. At the wedding, Sho puts up a front to match Yumiko’s lie. Seeing this, his father gives a flabbergasting speech.

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Episode 7 ^{Episode 7}

Tamao fails her entrance exam. She learns of Sho’s deal with his grandmother and runs away. For Kana, life is peachy, but her husband seems odd.

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Episode 8 ^{Episode 8}

Kana must move in with her in-laws. Tamao gets into medical school, forcing a stunned Yumiko to approve the marriage. Shimada persuades her to do so.

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