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Dear Radiance

2024 · 1 season

A slow, elegant immersion into courtly life, where poetry and unspoken longing carry more weight than action.

Created by
Oishi Suzuka
Genres
Drama
Starring
Yuriko Yoshitaka, Tasuku Emoto, Goro Kishitani
Overview
Murasaki Shikibu (Yoshitaka Yuriko), the heroine of this story, wrote the bestseller 'The Tale of Genji,' transcending a thousand years during the Heian period. She weaves the story of Hikaru Genji, fueled by her love for Fujiwara no Michinaga (Emoto Tasuku), with her hidden passion and incomparable imagination. It is a tale of a woman who lived with unchanging love in an ever-changing world. (From TV JAPAN)

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Created by
Oishi Suzuka
Genres
Drama
Starring
Yuriko Yoshitaka, Tasuku Emoto, Goro Kishitani
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 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
  • identity
  • art
  • class
  • power
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Oishi Suzuka
Written by
Shizuka Oishi
Starring
Yuriko Yoshitaka, Tasuku Emoto, Goro Kishitani, Ryoko Kuninaka, Mahiro Takasugi, Yasunori Danta, Kotono Mitsuishi, Arata Iura
Length
1 seasons, 48 episodes, 45 min each
Network
NHK G, NHK, NHK BSP4K
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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