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A Winter Round Dance

2005 · 1 season

A slow, emotionally heavy drama of swapped lives and class divides, watching characters quietly unravel as buried truths surface.

Genres
Drama
Overview
Two babies girls are born, one from a rich doctor's family, the other in the family of a fisherman. An accident occurs during the absence of the doctor, and his daughter is burnt and injured. Ignoring the advice of his wife to apologize for the wound, the fisherman decides to exchange the babies. So they raise Shinobu, the daughter of the doctor, while Chizuko, their real daughter, is raised in the doctor's family. Eighteen years later, their paths cross, their fate continues to be deeply intertwined.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • family
  • class
  • guilt
  • fate
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance4
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Created by
Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Junichi Nishimoto, Tomoyuki Minagawa, Yasuyuki Fujiki
Written by
Noriko Nakayama, Toshiyuki Tabe
Starring
Nagiko Tono, Mami Kurosaka, Norimasa Fuke, Shiho Wakabayashi, Togo Shimura, Masayuki Izumi, Satoshi Matsuda, Yoko Ishino
Music
Kotaro Nakagawa
Length
1 seasons, 62 episodes
Network
Fuji News Network
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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