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Punch-Drunk Woman
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Ryoko Shinohara
Kozue Fuyuki
15 eps
Naohito Fujiki
Yusuke Saeki
15 eps
Kang Ji-young
Park Ha-yoon
10 eps
Tsutomu Takahashi
Kenji Tokai
10 eps
Ichika Osaki
Minami Haneda
10 eps
Haru Kashiwagi
Tomoaki Chinen
10 eps
Sawamura Rei
Yu Uchimura
15 eps
Shinya Niiro
Shinya Sekikawa
10 eps
Hiroko Nakajima
Kayoko Nakama
11 eps
Jesse
Reiji Kusaka / Haruomi Kusaka (University Student)
15 eps
Yuki Kubota
Takashi Numata
10 eps
Dancho Yasuda
Tsutomu Azuki
10 eps
Reiya Masaki
Kosaku Sorimachi
10 eps
Karuma
Ryoma Kawakita
10 eps
Hiroyuki Takagishi
Ichitaro Kumazawa
10 eps
Yuna Hoshino
Satsuki Takada
10 eps
Takashi Ukaji
Taisuke Koyanagi
10 eps
Renn Kiriyama
Kyohei Gondo
5 eps
Tomohiro Ichikawa
Hisanari Kimura
5 eps
Takato Okura
Shirato Ren
5 eps
Koudai Matsuoka
Takuto Higashi
5 eps
Yuya Kido
Michinaga Igarashi
5 eps
Takeo Gozu
Yoshizo Oginuma
5 eps
Shugo Oshinari
Junji Tahara
5 eps
Tomohisa Yuge
Atsuhiro Mori
5 eps
Yuta Koseki
Hidehiko Ebihara
6 eps
Yamato Kochi
Hiroyasu Yoroizuka
6 eps
Toshiya Tohyama
Munemasa Shirai
4 eps
Toshihito Kokubo
Naoya Saijo
7 eps
Tomokazu Koshimura
Atsushi Nakama
3 eps
Azusa Ohara
Kozue Fuyuki (University Student)
5 eps
Kanna Kajiwara
Suzu Kusaka
7 eps
Kenya Osumi
Akihiko Kusaka
6 eps
Terunosuke Takezai
Haruomi Kusaka
4 eps
Yorie Yamashita
Seiko Fuyuki
6 eps
Meikyo Yamada
Arikata Kusaka
3 eps
Bengal
Ryuji Osada
6 eps
Ken Horiuchi
4 eps
Kayoko Motohashi
1 eps
Seiya
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Punch-Drunk Woman actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Punch-Drunk Woman reads strongest on Bingeability, Tension and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A strict female correctional officer’s disciplined life unravels when she encounters an inmate who is connected to her deepest secret.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Jun IshioProducer
- Tetsuhiro OginoProducer
- Suzuki AkinoProducer
Writing
- Keita ToumeWriter
- Yoshihiro IzumiWriter
Direction
- Seiichi NagumoDirector
- Karibu HoboDirector
- Tsuyoshi NakakukiDirector
- Shintaro SugawaraDirector
- Shigeyama YoshinoriDirector
Music
- Nobuyuki NakajimaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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