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The Happiness Recipe

2017 · 1 season

A slow, warm immersion into a bygone world of food and loss, rewarding patience with quiet emotional depth.

Created by
Takeshi Shibata
Genres
Drama
Tagline
A delicious mix of period drama and Japanese cuisine
Overview
In 1802, 8-year-old Mio lost her parents in a river flood in Osaka and feels all alone after she is also separated from her childhood friend Noe. She is saved by Yoshi, the proprietress of "Tenman Icchōan", one of Osaka's famous restaurants, whom she happened to meet.
How it feels
Melancholic, warm and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
Content
Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
Note
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Created by
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Genres
Drama
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
None
Era
period
Audience
teen
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour3
Realism6
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Takeshi Shibata
Written by
Yuki Fujimoto
Starring
Haru Kuroki, Mirai Moriyama, Kento Nagayama, Narumi Yasuda, Tomiyuki Kunihiro, Yanagishita Tomo, Toshihito Kokubo
Music
Yasuaki Shimizu
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 70 min each
Network
NHK
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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