TV series

Mizuiro no toki

1975 · 1 season

A gentle, steady daily drama about family and quiet ambition, easy to dip into and warm to follow.

Genres: Family, Drama
Starring: Shinobu Otake, Kyōko Kagawa, Masakane Yonekura

Overview: The 15th NHK Asadora. Starring Shinobu Otake in a story about a young woman striving to become a doctor and her mother, who is a nurse. The first six-month Asadora. Average rating of 40.1%.

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Genres: Family, Drama
Starring: Shinobu Otake, Kyōko Kagawa, Masakane Yonekura

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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: family
ambition
work
Places: None
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	2
Darkness	2
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	5

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Shinobu Otake松宮知子
Kyōko Kagawa知子の母・松宮房子
Masakane Yonekura知子の父・松宮善市
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Miwa Saitō水島はる子（三樹子の母）
Naomi Chiaki平塚まり
Masao Imafuku今福正雄
Keiko Tomita平塚光恵
Chieko Misaki内田加代

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Genres: family, drama
Written by: Fumio Ishimori
Starring: Shinobu Otake, Kyōko Kagawa, Masakane Yonekura, Hideji Ōtaki, Mieko Harada, Saburo Shinoda, Kaneko Iwasaki, Rumi Matsumoto
Length: 1 seasons, 156 episodes, 15 min each
Network: NHK G
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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