TV series

Niji

1970–1971 · 1 season

A quiet, earnest daily serial that asks you to sit with a family's endurance through hard years.

Overview: Starring Yōko Minamida as a woman who supported her family during and after World War II. All episodes are missing from the NHK archives, though a brief clip does survive as part of a contemporary news segment documenting the drama's production.
How it feels: Earnest, melancholic, warm and bleak. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Survival, family, war, grief
Content: Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: earneststrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
family
war
grief
work
Places: home
small town
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Genres: drama
Written by: Sumie Tanaka
Starring: Yōko Minamida, Noboru Nakaya, Hisako Takihana, Ikko Furuya, Yukiko Nagano
Length: 1 seasons, 310 episodes, 15 min each
Network: NHK G
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese