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Paper Moon

2014 · 1 season

A quiet, slowly tightening study of ordinary lives cracking open, asking patience as buried secrets and quiet guilt surface.

Created by
一色隆司, 黛凛太朗
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Tomoyo Harada, Maki Mizuno, Naomi Nishida
Overview
Rinka Umezawa is a housewife who pursues things that will bring her small happiness in life. Her husband Masabumi holds a stern belief that he will support his wife Rinka. The couple do not have children. Rinka begins to work part-time at a bank. She visits her clients’ homes. Sometimes, she even helps her elderly clients’ with their house chores. This builds a strong level of trust with her clients. One day, she visits client Kojo Hirabayashi’s. At his home, she meets his grandchild Kota who came to ask for money. Her encounter with Kota changes her. Soon, Rinka embezzles one hundred million yen from her bank and runs away. Two years later, Rinka’s former high school friends Yuko Okazaki and Aki Nakaji trace her embezzlement case and face their own darkness.

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Created by
一色隆司, 黛凛太朗
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Tomoyo Harada, Maki Mizuno, Naomi Nishida
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • crime
  • identity
  • betrayal
  • isolation
  • guilt
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

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Length
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Network
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Country
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