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First Love

2002 · 1 season

A quiet, emotionally tangled romance drama that simmers with unspoken history and moral discomfort.

Genres
Drama
Starring
Atsuro Watabe, Kyoko Fukada, Asahi Uchida
Overview
Kasumi is shocked to discover that her older sister's fiance is the man she first fell in love with five years ago in high school. At the time, he was her high school teacher and ultimately quit his job racked with guilt over their relationship. Kasumi was deeply hurt and struggled for a long time to overcome her sadness. Now the two of them must come to terms with their secret past before the ones they care about in the present are hurt.

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Genres
Drama
Starring
Atsuro Watabe, Kyoko Fukada, Asahi Uchida
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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
    • love
    • betrayal
    • guilt
    • family
    • memory
    Places
    • big city
    • home
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance7
    Tension5
    Darkness4
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Written by
    Shizuka Oishi
    Starring
    Atsuro Watabe, Kyoko Fukada, Asahi Uchida, Emi Wakui, Misa Uehara, Takehiko Ono, Yoshimasa Kondo, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
    Length
    1 seasons, 11 episodes, 60 min each
    Network
    TBS
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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