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Living, Dying, Father, etc.

2021 · 1 season

A quiet, bittersweet look at an adult daughter reconnecting with her aging father, mixing warmth with old wounds.

Created by
Yuki Yamato, Takeo Kikuchi
Genres
Drama
Starring
Yoh Yoshida, Jun Kunimura, Minami Tanaka
Overview
Tokiko’s mother died 20 years ago and her father Tetsuya is now in his 70's. Her father has a free spirit and is cute. Tokiko is in her mid 40's and still single. She has a strong personality. In their past, Tokiko and Tetsuya did not have a good relationship. It got so bad that they almost ended their relationship, but now they occasionally meet. They go out to eat together and have conversations. Tokiko decides to publish an essay about her father Tetsuya. To collect information for her essay, she meets Tetsuya and listens to various stories, but it's not just pleasant memories.

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Created by
Yuki Yamato, Takeo Kikuchi
Genres
Drama
Starring
Yoh Yoshida, Jun Kunimura, Minami Tanaka
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 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
  • family
  • parenthood
  • memory
  • grief
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism8
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Yuki Yamato, Takeo Kikuchi
Written by
Kishū Izuchi
Starring
Yoh Yoshida, Jun Kunimura, Minami Tanaka, Mayu Matsuoka, Yasuko Tomita, Shintaro Morimoto, Akiko Aitsuki, Chigusa Yasuzawa
Music
Vampillia
Length
1 seasons, 12 episodes, 40 min each
Network
TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, TVQ, TVh, TSC
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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