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Always the two of us

2003 · 1 season

A gentle, slow-burning romance about creative dreams and rekindled friendship, with a warm, bittersweet tone.

Created by
Isamu Nakae, Hirai Hideki
Genres
Drama
Starring
Kenji Sakaguchi, Takako Matsu, Eita Nagayama
Overview
26-year-old Tanimachi Mizuho (Matsu Takako) moves to Tokyo hoping to become a successful author, but finds that Tokyo isn't so welcoming. There she meets a popular variety show writer, Morinaga Kenta (Sakaguchi Kenji), who happens to have been a childhood friend. But whether or not they fall in love is uncertain.

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Created by
Isamu Nakae, Hirai Hideki
Genres
Drama
Starring
Kenji Sakaguchi, Takako Matsu, Eita Nagayama
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How it feels

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Tone
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • love
  • friendship
  • ambition
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
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
Horror0
Humour4
Realism8
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Isamu Nakae, Hirai Hideki, Kazuhiro Kobayashi
Written by
Tomoko Aizawa
Starring
Kenji Sakaguchi, Takako Matsu, Eita Nagayama, Kyoko Hasegawa, Hitomi Sato, Masahiko Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa
Music
Ryo Yoshimata
Length
1 seasons, 11 episodes, 45 min each
Network
Fuji TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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