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A Copywriter Takes Paternity Leave

2021 · 1 season

A gentle, funny, and quietly moving look at the absurdity and exhaustion of new parenthood, with a warm domestic focus.

Created by
Junta Yamaguchi
Genres
Drama, Family
Starring
Koji Seto, Kumi Takiuchi, Eiji Takigawa
Tagline
Isn't parental leave supposed to be like a holiday? A new breed of "survival chronicle" you'll want to watch with those closest to you!
Overview
Yōsuke works as a copywriter for an advertising agency. His wife, Aiko, informs him that she is pregnant. Due to a case, Yōsuke asks for an unusually long six-month paternity leave. Nobody at his workplace has taken a six-month paternity leave before. A few months later, Yōsuke's daughter is born.

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Created by
Junta Yamaguchi
Genres
Drama, Family
Starring
Koji Seto, Kumi Takiuchi, Eiji Takigawa
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • parenthood
  • family
  • work
  • identity
  • healing
Places
  • home
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, family
Created by
Junta Yamaguchi
Written by
Toru Hosokawa
Starring
Koji Seto, Kumi Takiuchi, Eiji Takigawa, Momoko Fukuchi, Yusuke Shoji, Narushi Ikeda, Jun Murakami
Music
Takashi Tsuzuki
Length
1 seasons, 6 episodes, 25 min each
Network
WOWOW Prime
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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