TV series

From the Heart

2000 · 1 season

A gentle, earnest melodrama that asks you to sit with quiet emotional confusion and the slow thaw of grief.

Overview: A young autistic woman, Mayuko, who has difficulty understanding and processing human emotions, meets with a young former psychiatrist, Shinichi, who is still getting over the unexpected death of his longtime girlfriend. Shinichi begins to help her with her skills of human interaction, but as he gets to know Mayuko better, he finds that she may be helping him to remember the feelings of love that he has forgotten in his grief.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest, romantic and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Grief, love, identity, isolation
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 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: grief
love
identity
isolation
healing
Places: big city
hospital
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild