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Haguregumo

1978 · 1 season

A leisurely, wry look at a roguish father's household in a changing age, by turns funny and quietly touching.

Created by: Hira Kōnokazu, Hisaya Kondoh
Genres: Drama
Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Kaori Momoi, Yōichi Itō

Overview: Set at the end of the Edo period, the series depicts Kumo's family with his wife, Kame, their 11-year-old son, Shinnosuke. Kumo is always ignoring work and playing and he is also notorious for womanising.

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Created by: Hira Kōnokazu, Hisaya Kondoh
Genres: Drama
Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Kaori Momoi, Yōichi Itō

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
parenthood
identity
class
betrayal
Places: small town
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	3
Horror	1
Humour	5
Realism	7
Romance	4
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama
Created by: Hira Kōnokazu, Hisaya Kondoh
Written by: Sō Kuramoto, Narito Kaneko
Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Kaori Momoi, Yōichi Itō, Toshio Shiba, Rinichi Yamamoto, Hideji Ōtaki, Kei Tani, Chishū Ryū
Length: 1 seasons, 20 episodes, 54 min each
Network: tv asahi
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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