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Our Rainy Days

2021 · 1 season

A quiet, thoughtful Japanese drama about bodies, ambition and the small indignities of being a woman at work.

Created by
Mai Sakai
Genres
Drama
Starring
Komuai, Haruka Kudo, Riko Narumi
Overview
Hikari Kojima is selected to be a photographer for a gravure magazine. On the morning of the day of the competition, the rain aggravates her PMS symptoms and her body does not listen to her at all! Similarly, Aoi Serizawa, who was supposed to show off her first swimsuit photo at the beginning of the magazine as a step towards her dream of becoming an actress, suddenly gets her period and panics.

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Created by
Mai Sakai
Genres
Drama
Starring
Komuai, Haruka Kudo, Riko Narumi
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • identity
    • gender
    • ambition
    • work
    Places
    • big city
    • workplace
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour3
    Realism8
    Romance2
    Tension4
    Darkness3
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Created by
    Mai Sakai
    Written by
    Maki Peyoung
    Starring
    Komuai, Haruka Kudo, Riko Narumi, Shigeru Muroi, Hidekazu Mashima, Takenori Goto
    Music
    Masaru Yokoyama, Kana Hashiguchi
    Cinematography
    Orie Ichihashi
    Length
    1 seasons, 1 episodes, 60 min each
    Network
    NHK
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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