TV series

Farewell, Happy Days

2023 · 1 season

A quiet, uneasy romance where tenderness and dread sit side by side, and every ordinary moment carries the weight of a secret.

Overview: "Newlyweds" Keiichi and Akira Hirose have moved to a new city. Keiichi, who works as an author, and Akira, who works with kindergartners, are hiding a big secret from the people around them.
How it feels: Melancholic, romantic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Love, family, identity, deception
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
family
identity
deception
isolation
Places: big city
home
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Genres: drama
Created by: Kenji Shibayama
Written by: Izumi Kawasaki
Starring: Mizuki Yamashita, Jin Suzuki, Asahi Ito, Konatsu Kato, Sara Takatsuki, Nobuo Kyô, Maju Ozawa, Shunya Kaneko
Length: 1 seasons, 8 episodes, 50 min each
Network: TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, TVQ, TV Osaka, TVh, GBS, TSC, TVN, WTV, BBC
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese