TV series

Heaven

2017 · 1 season

A somber, deliberately paced psychological mystery that burrows into grief and memory, leaving a lingering unease.

Created by: Hajime Gonno
Genres: Mystery, Drama
Starring: Yukie Nakama, Hitomi Kuroki, Kaho

Overview: An incident is talked about all over Japan. The case involves the Doizaki couple that killed their 15-year-old daughter and hid her body under their house for 16 years. One day, housewife Toshiko Hagitani visits Shigeko Maehata who works for a small editing company. Toshiko tells Shigeko that her 12-year-old son Hitoshi might have a special ability to see other people's memories. She pulls out a picture drawn by Hitoshi. The picture has a girl with a grey colored face lying in a house that has a bat shaped weather vane on its roof. The picture seems to depict the incident involving the Doizaki couple. Shigeko decides to do some research, but Hitoshi dies in a car accident. Meanwhile, the attorney for the Doizaki couple tells their second daughter Seiko that the couple has cut off all ties with her. Around that time, a female high student is confined.

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Created by: Hajime Gonno
Genres: Mystery, Drama
Starring: Yukie Nakama, Hitomi Kuroki, Kaho

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
family
memory
isolation
mystery
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	2
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: mystery, drama
Created by: Hajime Gonno
Written by: Eriko Shinozaki
Starring: Yukie Nakama, Hitomi Kuroki, Kaho, Kaoru Kobayashi, Nobuaki Kaneko, Miyuki Matsuda, Naomi Nishida, Masahiro Komoto
Music: Kei Haneoka
Length: 1 seasons, 6 episodes, 60 min each
Network: WOWOW Prime
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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