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Red Roof on the Slope

2024 · 1 season

A slow, unsettling plunge into buried trauma and psychological manipulation, where every episode tightens the grip of unease.

Created by
Shosuke Murakami
Genres
Mystery, Drama
Starring
Kenta Kiritani, Kana Kurashina, Ryosuke Hashimoto
Overview
Eighteen years after the murder of a high school girl's parents. A new novelist's serialization project leads the characters into the depths of "black emotions".

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Created by
Shosuke Murakami
Genres
Mystery, Drama
Starring
Kenta Kiritani, Kana Kurashina, Ryosuke Hashimoto
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • obsession
  • grief
  • deception
  • guilt
Places
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour1
Realism7
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
mystery, drama
Created by
Shosuke Murakami
Written by
Nami Kikkawa
Starring
Kenta Kiritani, Kana Kurashina, Ryosuke Hashimoto, Misako Renbutsu, Yuki Saito, Yoshiko Tokoshima, Mio Kudo, Yoshiko Miyazaki
Length
1 seasons, 5 episodes, 50 min each
Network
WOWOW Prime
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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