TV series

Brother

1969–1970 · 1 season

A quiet, humane slice-of-life that unfolds gently, letting ordinary lives and small heartbreaks accumulate into something deeply felt.

Created by: Taichi Yamada, Keisuke Kinoshita
Genres: Drama, Family
Starring: Taisaku Akino, Teruhiko Aoi, Yuri Akiyama

Overview: The drama depicts the lives and loves of people living in three different environments: a family consisting of two brothers and their parents; a family with a father and a daughter who are not well organized; and a girl who has moved from the countryside to Tokyo to live alone in the whirlwind of the big city, desperately trying to survive.

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Created by: Taichi Yamada, Keisuke Kinoshita
Genres: Drama, Family
Starring: Taisaku Akino, Teruhiko Aoi, Yuri Akiyama

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 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: family
isolation
coming-of-age
class
love
Places: big city
home
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	4
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, family
Created by: Taichi Yamada, Keisuke Kinoshita
Written by: Taichi Yamada
Starring: Taisaku Akino, Teruhiko Aoi, Yuri Akiyama, Masami Sawada, Kazuo Kitamura, Keiko Tsushima, Kenji Sugawara, Kin Sugai
Music: Chūji Kinoshita
Length: 1 seasons, 26 episodes, 30 min each
Network: TBS, JNN
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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