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Freeter, Ie wo Kau

2010 · 1 season

A quiet, earnest story about a lost young man slowly rebuilding his life, with gentle emotional weight and realistic family struggles.

Created by
Keita Kono
Genres
Drama
Overview
Freeter, Ie wo Kau is a Japanese television drama series that aired on Fuji Television and on Kyodo Television in 2010. The story revolves around Take Seiji, who quits his job after three months. With no dreams, no savings, and a poor relationship with his family, he becomes a hikikomori. However, after his mother falls ill with depression, he ends up having to take on a part-time job at a construction site. Because of that, he soon decides to work towards rebuilding his life: "Even though I'm just a freeter, I'm going to buy a house for the sake of my family." One of the people he meets at the construction site is Chiba Manami, who graduated from a top-class university and joined a well-known general contracting firm. Manami is the complete opposite of Seiji. But while their personalities clash at first, they gradually come to understand each other. --Tokyograph

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Created by
Keita Kono
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • identity
  • isolation
  • healing
  • work
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Action2
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Created by
Keita Kono
Written by
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Starring
Kazunari Ninomiya, Karina, Haruka Igawa, Ryuhei Maruyama, Atsuko Asano, Naoto Takenaka, Ryoko Sakaguchi, Kohei Otomo
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 54 min each
Network
Fuji TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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