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Shijuukara

2022 · 1 season

A quiet, tender midlife drama that lingers on small emotional shifts and the tentative reawakening of a stalled life.

Created by
Akiko Ohku
Genres
Drama
Starring
Sayaka Yamaguchi, Rihito Itagaki, Tomu Miyazaki
Overview
Watanuki Shinobu is a manga artist for the past 20 years. Despite being married and having a son, Shinobu lives her life unsatisfactorily. When Shinobu was about to give up her dreams and work, her past works became popular on ebooks and she decides to create a new work and recruit an assistant. A 22 year old young man named Tachibana Chiaki applied to be an assistant and Shinobu gradually finds her life moving forward again after a long time.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Created by
Akiko Ohku
Genres
Drama
Starring
Sayaka Yamaguchi, Rihito Itagaki, Tomu Miyazaki
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 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
  • identity
  • love
  • ambition
  • work
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
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
Humour3
Realism8
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Akiko Ohku
Starring
Sayaka Yamaguchi, Rihito Itagaki, Tomu Miyazaki, Hikaru Tashiro, Noriko Iriyama, Wakana Sakai, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Mayu Yamaguchi
Music
Hidetoshi Takumi
Cinematography
Natsuyo Nakamura
Length
1 seasons, 12 episodes, 30 min each
Network
TV Tokyo
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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