All Episodes of The Laughing Salesman
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Season 1
6.4/107 votesThe Friend Salesman
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/31/1989
Moguro sets up an unpopular and lonely salaryman with a lady by correspondence. When they meet in a park at night frequented by perverts, she turns out to be a mannequin whom Moguro causes to scream for help. The salaryman is then beaten up by citizens and arrested.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.1/108 votes
The Man in Disguise
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/7/1989
A married salaryman with a wife and child has a mundane life and wishes for some adventure. Moguro encourages him to wear a disguise and have nights out on the town, but then gives him a new life, in a small apartment with a wife and four children.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.2/108 votes
The View from the 47th Floor
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/21/1989
Moguro encourages a student to observe life from the top of a building and he falls in love with a woman he sees in an apartment building. Moguro sets up a meeting between them, but also tells her husband, a gang boss, who arrives and beats up the student.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 5.8/106 votes
In Valor There is Waste
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/28/1989
A cowardly illustrator dreams of being a hero so Moguro encourages him to be brave. The young cartoonist eventually summons enough courage to stop a robber, but is stabbed in his right arm, preventing him from ever drawing again.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/107 votes
The Separator
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/12/1989
A young celebrity does not want to marry his girlfriend, so Moguro says he will convince her to stay away, but he must never see her again. However the celebrity misses her and sees her again so Moguro joins them together permanently.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.4/107 votes
Woman on the Platform
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/19/1989
A dull young banker falls in love with a woman wearing a medical face mask he sees every day on the train. Moguro arranges a meeting, but demands that he does not love her only for her looks. The banker agrees, but then is horrified when she reveals her true disfigured face that is the result of failed plastic surgery.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.5/106 votes
The Sure Winner
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/26/1989
A student bets away his allowance at the horse races. After helping him win once, Moguro offers to help him one more time, as long as he never bets again. Later, after bragging about his win, the student is forced to accept ten million yen from a gangster in a bar to bet at the races. However, before he meets Moguro on the next race day, he gambles all the money and loses.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.4/109 votes
Closet Man
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/9/1990
Struggling manga writer Hikage Hisatoshi is having trouble creating and paying his rent. Moguro offers to move in to his apartment as long as Hikage stays in the closet. Hikage is so happy in the closet that he creates very popular and successful manga. Moguro then moves him to a purpose-built closet. Eventually, Hikage wants to leave and enjoy his success but finds that he can no longer live in the sunlight.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.4/108 votes
Daydream
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/16/1990
Company man Nakajima Kenichi always eats last night's leftovers for lunch. Moguro treats him to and exotic lunch at the Daydream Club in the basement. Nakajima enjoys it so much he and a workmate spend all afternoon the next day drinking there, but they return to work after 5pm and are both fired.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/106 votes
Golf 101
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1990
Unconfident company man Maido Chiyorou feels left out at work, so he tries to learn golf after hours. He improves after lessons from Moguro where he learns to imagine the ball as someone he hates. Later, Maido joins in the work golf competition but under pressure he hits the co-worker he hates instead of the ball.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/107 votes
The Woman Who Wants to Marry
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/6/1990
The ambitious woman office-worker, Tsumanari Taiko, is only interested in tall, educated, wealthy men to the exclusion of all others. Moguro sends her on an island trip for singles where she meets and falls for a man who fits her criteria, however he is a fake and Tsumanari is horrified when she finds out.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.1/107 votes
Cutting
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1990
Trainee hairdresser Demuno Fouta is too scared to hold a razor, so Moguro gives him a box of medicated cigarettes to increase his confidence. Demuno improves his shaving skills, but is distraught when the other hairdressers smoke them all during a mahjong night, not realizing that only the first cigarette was medicated. When called on to shave the boss, he makes a fatal slip.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.4/107 votes
Part-Time Confidential
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/27/1990
College student Tsutsui Shinichi is offered high-paying part-time jobs by Moguro and takes one offered by an old man to go out and have a good time on his behalf, as long as the money is not spent on something pointless. Unfortunately Tsutsui loses a fortune to some thugs at a mahjong club and when he goes back to the old man's house with the thugs to get more money, they find that he's gone.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/107 votes
After The Dream
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/1990
Urashima Taichi, a middle-aged company man has a dream of to stay in a deluxe hotel at least once. Moguro convinces him to try it, and tricks him into going with a young woman who he thinks is his wife. When he finally leaves and goes home, he finds that a long time has passed, and someone else has been living in his house for the past 10 years. The story is based on the legend of Urishima Tarō.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.6/107 votes
The Guardsman
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/13/1990
Company man Ishino Takashi calculates how much he has lost playing mahjong and decided to quit. Moguro offers to protect him from ever playing again, but Ishino relapses and Moguro finds him playing mahjong again. The next night when Ishino comes home, he finds Moguro has turned his wife into a mahjong addict.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/107 votes
Her First Love
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/20/1990
Housewife Koino Yumemi regrets not marrying a potter in her youth and complains about her neglectful husband and disobedient daughter. Moguro reunites Koino with the potter and they run away to live together, however their new life together is not as idyllic as they imagined.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.4/107 votes
The Path to Karate
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/10/1990
Moguro saves the young company man, Karasumori Kiichi, from being beaten by thugs and convinces him to learn karate every day with a tough master. Karasumori finds it difficult but perseveres for a few lessons. When he meets the same thugs in an alley, he tries to fight them, but is badly beaten up.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.6/107 votes
The Man-Hater
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/17/1990
A career woman, Kariya Asako, is harassed by her boss and Moguro arranges for him to be fired for sexual harassment on a train. In return the Kariya must focus on her work and not become involved with a man, but she does. When Kariya's new boyfriend surprises her on a railway platform, she overreacts and accidentally pushes him in front of a train.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.8/105 votes
House Lights
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/24/1990
Middle-aged company man, Kaeri Takunai, has an unhappy home life, so spends his evenings aimlessly killing time. Moguro offers him an apartment as long as invites no women there, however he lets a female neighbour in, and so breaks his promise. Kaeri's family finds out and he is thrown out, but then is also prevented from entering the new apartment. Eventually he is back home, in the doghouse.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/105 votes
The Man in the Back Seat
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/1/1990
Moguro convinces a company driver, Ohkuri Yukumi, to give him stock tips so that he can buy shares and split the profits on the condition that the driver must not trade himself. However Ohkuri gets a hot tip, and uses company money to buy shares himself, but is then arrested for fraud and embezzlement.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.8/105 votes
Lady Killer Warning
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/8/1990
Office worker Musai Toshio leads a dull life and women ignore him, so Moguro gives him a makeover but Moguro makes him promise to be prudent in his relationships with women. Musai finally dates a woman at work, but then takes another woman out to lunch. Moguro then calls Musai's girlfriend who turns up at the restaurant and makes a scene.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/105 votes
Belly of the Tanuki
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/15/1990
The handsome actor, Debara Nayami, must lose his pot belly to appear in a play beside a beautiful co-star. Moguro gives Debara a tanuki ornament to pray to if he feels tempted by sweets. The technique works and Debara becomes trim again while the tanuki becomes fatter. However, on opening night Debara receives a box of his favourite daifuku and eats them, causing his fat belly to reappear while he is on stage.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Executive and the Window
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 5/22/1990
Overworked company executive, Higama Hoshiya, is envious of Madobe, a company man in the adjacent building who has no work to do because he is approaching retirement. Moguro arranges for them to exchange places, but warns Higama that he must not do any work. Unfortunately, Higama travels to Kyushu on a business and pleasure trip and when he returns he finds that Madobe has died while in his job. Higama is thus seen as an impostor and is condemned to spend the rest of his working life in Madobe's job.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The May Blues
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 5/29/1990
Katsuta Rui, a young company man who still lives with his mother, has lost interest in his job because of his demanding boss named Oniyama. Moguro suggests that he practice knitting during lunch breaks and discovers that Oniyama also knits which makes his life easier, but Oniyama warns him to keep it a secret. However, Katsuta's mother finds out and exposes Oniyama who has to resign and he begins teaching knitting assisted by Katsuta, much to his mother's horror.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Message Dialing
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 6/5/1990
Young company employee Ikuji Naiya is extremely shy and lonely, and spends his spare time and money using a phone message service. Moguro gives him the message phone number of a lonely young woman and they happily exchange messages. Moguro tells Naiya that he must never contact her in person, but Naiya succumbs and arranges to meet her, only to find that she's a little girl.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Single Life
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 6/12/1990
Otokoya Moume is a divorced company worker who lives alone and his apartment is a mess. Moguro offers him a free housekeeper, Shigeko, who has a young daughter, but he prefers living alone and sacks her. However, he then misses her housekeeping and her cooking. He asks Moguro to bring her back, but Otokoya must promise not become romantically involved with her. However, Otokoya proposes marriage, only to find that Shigeko has reconciled with her burly husband and Otokoya's ex-wife has left their small children at his doorstep. They all then move into his small apartment with him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Early Stopover
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 6/19/1990
Married company man Hande Oshita is enticed by a woman sitting above a bar he sees from the train each evening. One night, Moguro convinces Hande to leave the train and meet het. He enters the bar but he is drugged and then presented with a huge bill. Moguro bails him out, but when Hande catches a taxi home, he finds his house has gone, leaving him stranded.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/105 votes
Kissing Fortune
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 6/26/1990
Osaki Makkura is a college preparatory student who wants to enter Tokyo University. Moguro takes him to a kissing fortune teller who predicts he will be successful if he studies hard, however he is not allowed to kiss anyone else before the exams. Unfortunately, his girlfriend kisses him and Moguro tells him that he will never go to Tokyo University and even his girlfriend rejects him.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Refusal of Service
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 7/3/1990
Taxi driver Ooi Takushi does poorly because he seems to only pick up short fares and he is too meek to refuse the client. Moguro gives Ooi a paper tiger which he says will bring long fares, but he must never refuse to pick up a passenger. Ooi begins making more money, but on night he refuses to take a woman a short distance to hospital. Moguo causes him to have an accident, and then no taxis stop to pick up the injured Ooi.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Bullpen Ace
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 7/10/1990
Baseball pitcher Nomino plays well at practice in the bullpen but plays badly in the real games. Moguro gives Nomino a cap to wear but he must also abstain from drinking alcohol until he is pitching in the major league. Nomino improves his pitching, but he cannot sleep on the night before a big game, and resorts to drinking sake. The next morning he is hung over and rushes to the game without his lucky cap and ruins his chance to play in the major league.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Wife Photo
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 7/24/1990
Photo lab worker Kako Shinobu shows around a photo of his attractive young wife and son, but the photo is quite old and his home life is unhappy. Moguro lures him back to his old apartment where he meets his wife and son as they were 15 years ago and he is finally happy.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Collector
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 7/31/1990
Company man Kichide Maniya is an addicted stamp collector and Moguro offers him an extremely rare Hawaiian 2 cents stamp in exchange for his entire collection. Kichide is happy to hand over his collection to overcome his addiction, but Moguro says he must never sell the stamp. Later, Kichide's mother reveals that she owes millions of Yen after playing the stock market, so he tries to sell the stamp but is killed by a front-end loader as he rushes across the road.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Queen of the Night
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 8/7/1990
Freeter Ubuna Yatsuda has a crush on Megumi, a girl working in a flower shop, but he is too shy to speak to her. Moguro offers Ubuna a Queen of the Night flower to woo Megumi. She accepts, and As Ubuna and Megumi wait for the flower to bloom during the night, Megumi's boyfriend arrives home and pushes Ubuna over the balcony and into a pond.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Pet-in-a-Can
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 8/14/1990
Young animator Koh Arao has a pet myna bird in his apartment against the building's rules. Tachiki from next door notifies the landlord and the bird is allowed to escape. As compensation, Moguro gives Arao a eucalyptus tree in a can and promises that if Arao talks to it, it will bring him happiness. Arao finds the tree fascinating and it prompts him to create a successful pitch for an animated series about a koala and a eucalyptus tree. However, Tachiki discovers the tree and cuts it to pieces. Moguro then regenerates the tree whose branches grow and deposit Tachiki on top of a telegraph pole.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Owl Eyes
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 8/21/1990
Mimizu Kunio is a photographer obsessed with owls, but Moguro suggests that he photograph "night owls" in the city to support his family and fund his hobby. Mimizu becomes financially successful, but is still obsessed with owls so Moguro turns him into an owl.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Youthful Pride
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 8/28/1990
The youthful looking and married company manager Wakasa Manjirou is concerned that he is beginning to look his age. Moguro give him a Rudolph Valentino doll and tells him to wish upon it for youth, and it proves successful. Later, Moguro warns Wakasa not to overdo it, however after meeting a beautiful woman, Wakasa overexerts himself and dies on the dance floor.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Gourmand in Waiting
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 9/4/1990
Struggling company man Kurume Hoshio is saving for his wedding, but he yearns to eat at three star restaurants. Moguro treats him to dinner at a high-class restaurant, then offers him a membership card but warns that it should be used in moderation. However, Kurume becomes addicted to the point he becomes obsessed so Moguro condemns him to enjoy eating garbage.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Karaoke Addict
Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 9/11/1990
Karao Keiichi company man dislikes karaoke nights, but Moguro gives him a karaoke set to practice at home and he becomes a convert. At an important business dinner, he embarrasses the client by his good singing, then refuses to return to work and continues singing at home.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Relocated Husband
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 9/18/1990
Company man Tanami Kazuhito is relocated to a remote branch office but he misses his wife and home back in Tokyo. Moguro takes him to a friendly bar with the charming young hostess Tsuyu and he begins to frequent the establishment. Moguro encourages Tanami's friendship with the lonely Tsuyu and end up spending a night together. However, the next morning Tanami wife visits his hotel and discovers his transgression.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Moonlit Orchid
Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 9/25/1990
Company man Hanahata Komatta always delays returning home because his unhappy home life. Moguro gives him a potted orchid to care for. However his wife becomes jealous and cuts off the blossoming flowers and serves them in tempura which devastates Hanahata. As compensation, Moguro makes an orchid flower bloom from Hanahata's mouth in the moonlight.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown