TV series

Haru and Natsu

2005 · 1 season

A sweeping, sorrowful family saga that follows two sisters across decades of hardship, leaving a heavy ache of endurance and hope.

Overview: As Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left behind in the care of spiteful relatives. Losing all contact, each must make her own way in an unforgiving world. Hardships abound in the struggle to survive in war-torn Japan and in the face of anti-Japanese sentiment in Brazil, financial ruin, familial pressure, abandonment and lost love. However they also experience the precious joy of survival and success. Now, after 70 years, Haru comes back to Japan to find her estranged sister.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest, dark and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Family, survival, isolation, immigration
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 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: family
survival
isolation
immigration
grief
Places: countryside
big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
serialised
true story
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild