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Don't be a cry baby

1999 · 1 season

A relentless tearjerker that piles on hardship, testing your patience as much as your sympathy for its put-upon heroine.

Created by
Tatsuaki Kimura
Genres
Drama
Overview
After a car accident kills both her parents, the 16-year-old Ayumi (Fukada) and her brother are adopted by their aunt and uncle respectively. Their nightmares begin after they move in with the two families. Ayumi is forced to quit school and work in Water Inn, which is owned by her aunt's husband, who seems to be filled with hatred for Ayumi. In the inn, Ayumi is surrounded by people who seems to either hate her or dislike her. Her only friend is Lin (Chen) who is an illegal foreign worker. When she runs into troubles, she has 3 guardian angels who takes turn to help her: her aunt, Lin, and Sasaoka Yuzuri, the son of a politician and who has a promising future. Yuzuri's interest in her, however, incurs the jealousy of her cousin and the wrath of her uncle who loves his own daughter Yuriko (Nakamura) very much. In the meanwhile, she also has to find ways to bring her brother under her own
How it feels
Melancholic, dark and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Grief, family, isolation, class
Content
Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note
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Created by
Tatsuaki Kimura
Genres
Drama
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism7
Romance4
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Tatsuaki Kimura
Written by
Jun'ya Yamazaki, Yuki Fujimoto
Starring
Kyoko Fukada, Naohito Fujiki, Kelly Chen Hui-lin, Saemi Nakamura, Katsuhisa Namase, Mari Hoshino, Kenji Kohashi, Kyōko Enami
Music
Taro Iwashiro
Length
1 seasons, 11 episodes, 60 min each
Network
Fuji TV
Country
Hong Kong, Japan
Languages
Japanese

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