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Second Virgin

2010 · 1 season

A quiet, grown-up affair drama that simmers with longing and awkwardness, asking you to sit with uncomfortable desires rather than judge them.

Genres
Drama
Overview
Second Virgin is a Japanese television drama series that aired on NHK in 2010. Nakamura Rui is a divorced but highly successful producer in publishing. She meets Suzuki Kou, an ambitious buisiness man 17 years her junior, and finds herself getting aggressively persued by him. Eventually they begin a steaming affair. Meanwhile, a young couple moves into the house next to Nakamura's and the wife begins to confide in her about the frustrations of their conjugal life.

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Tone
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 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
  • love
  • identity
  • sexuality
  • betrayal
  • loneliness
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance7
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama
Created by
Hiroshi Kurosaki, Tsuyoshi Yanagawa
Written by
Shizuka Oishi
Starring
Kyoka Suzuki, Hiroki Hasegawa, Kyoko Fukada, Mitsuko Kusabue, Akira Fuse, Mayumi Asaka, YOU, Maki Tamaru
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes
Network
NHK BS1
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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