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Gift

1997 · 1 season

A quiet, puzzle-like drama that keeps you leaning in, piecing together a stranger's missing past.

Created by
Isamu Nakae, Kensaku Sawada
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Takuya Kimura, Shigeru Muroi, Satomi Kobayashi
Overview
An unconscious young man is found inside the closet of a missing billionaire. Amnesiac, he is given the name Yukio and kept close to Naomi—the woman who was supposed to disappear alongside the billionaire, Shibata—in case he ever recovers his memories of the night he was rescued and the whereabouts of Shibata and his fortune.

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Created by
Isamu Nakae, Kensaku Sawada
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Takuya Kimura, Shigeru Muroi, Satomi Kobayashi
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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • memory
    • mystery
    • deception
    • identity
    • greed
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action3
    Horror2
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance3
    Tension6
    Darkness5
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, mystery
    Created by
    Isamu Nakae, Kensaku Sawada, Shunsaku Kawake
    Written by
    Yumiko Inoue, George Iida
    Starring
    Takuya Kimura, Shigeru Muroi, Satomi Kobayashi, Ryoko Shinohara, Masayuki Imai, Mitsuko Baisho, Zen Kajihara, Kiyoshiro Imawano
    Length
    1 seasons, 11 episodes, 52 min each
    Network
    Fuji TV
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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