TV series

Mango no Ki no Shita de

2019 · 1 season

A quietly devastating and tender wartime drama that lingers on friendship and survival, asking for emotional engagement rather than action.

Overview: Rinko and Aya, employed in the Philippines in 1944, escape one of the most gruesome battles of the Pacific War. Based on the accounts of actual women survivors, this special depicts the friendship - the joy and sadness - shared by these two women, whose lives remain intertwined in wartime and long beyond.
How it feels: Melancholic, warm, tense and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Friendship, survival, war, trauma
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
survival
war
trauma
memory
Places: wilderness
sea
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex none