TV series

Last Present

2004 · 1 season

A quiet, tearful family drama that asks you to sit with regret and slow reconciliation, rewarding patience with gentle emotional payoffs.

Overview: Hiraki Asuka is diagnosed with cancer with three months left. She returns to her daughter and former husband, both of whom she had abandoned before, in order to spend her last days, especially with her daughter and to regain her love. Asuka, an architect, had deserted her family, former husband Satoshi and daughter Ayumi as she could not tolerate raising children.
How it feels: Melancholic, warm, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Family, parenthood, grief, redemption
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Full breakdown

Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 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: family
parenthood
grief
redemption
healing
Places: home
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild