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Beginners!
73%
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AI Analysis
Beginners! (2012) — AI TV series analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Beginners! (2012) — a TV series tagged as Comedy and Drama with funny and nostalgic moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: Shimura Teppei (Fujigaya Taisuke) grew up watching his policeman father who would ride side-by-side in marathons because he was a motorcycle cop, and dreamt of being a marathon runner as a child. But Teppei’s father lost his job and disappeared. Teppei ruined himself by becoming a well-known delinquent in the area. … Our models also surface themes such as ai and family from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night and casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling across 1 season.
Community signal: TMDb members rate Beginners! 73% (3 votes) — solid community ratings for this TV series.
AI verdict
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Synopsis
Shimura Teppei (Fujigaya Taisuke) grew up watching his policeman father who would ride side-by-side in marathons because he was a motorcycle cop, and dreamt of being a marathon runner as a child. But Teppei’s father lost his job and disappeared. Teppei ruined himself by becoming a well-known delinquent in the area. Under the influence of his childhood friend, Yuichi, Teppei chose to become a policeman after graduating from high school. He miraculously passed the recruitment exam and entered the police academy. However, he has been assigned to a “class of reserves” (Goriki Ayame, Koyanagi Yu, Okamoto Azusa, Mizusawa Erina, Ishii Tomoya, Mori Ren) which is a gathering of odds and ends. There are eight of them and each day they are only instructed by the assistant teacher, Ryuzaki Misaki, to sweep the academy grounds … …
Quick facts
- Type
- Series
- Status
- Ended
- Release date
- 2012-07-12
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 10
- TMDB rating
- 7.3
- TMDB ID
- 45839
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What is Beginners! about?
Shimura Teppei (Fujigaya Taisuke) grew up watching his policeman father who would ride side-by-side in marathons because he was a motorcycle cop, and dreamt of being a marathon runner as a child. B... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
Is there an AI analysis for Beginners!?
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How many seasons of Beginners! are there?
There are currently 1 seasons of Beginners! documented in the community database.
Cast & crew
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Directors & writers
Cast
Taisuke Fujigaya
Teppei Shimura
Hiromitsu Kitayama
Danji Tachibana
Ayame Goriki
Hiro Momoe
Tokio Emoto
Yu Koyanagi
Tomoya Ishii
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Ren Mori
Azusa Okamoto
Chiaki Niijima
Erena Mizusawa
Yoko Fukuhara
Noriko Aoyama
Yuri Mine
Satoru Date
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Reiko Matsunaga
Keiko Horiuchi
Ichirôta Miyakawa
Michiko Kawai
Ai Moritaka
Takeshi Kaga
Tomiyuki Kunihiro
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