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Cinderella Date

2014 · 1 season

A gentle, slow-burning romance drama about a married woman's rekindled affair, played with earnest warmth and quiet emotional pull.

Overview: Makoto, a married senior high school teacher who goes on a vacation with her husband to Jakarta, Indonesia, where she accidentally meets and falls for journalist Ryota. 3 years later when Ryota returns to Japan, he and Makoto reunites and rekindles their romance.

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
betrayal
identity
Places: None
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex mild

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	7
Romance	7
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama, comedy
Created by: Yo Kawahara, Makito Murakami
Written by: Kazuhiko Ban
Starring: Mari Hoshino, Hidekazu Mashima, Tomoka Kurokawa, Jun Inoue, Akiko Hinagata, Tomonori Jinnai, Kumiko Okae, Atsuko Anami
Music: Masahiro Tokuda
Length: 1 seasons, 39 episodes, 30 min each
Network: Tokai Television Broadcasting
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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