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Who Does Housework Anymore?

2025 · 1 season

A quiet, observant look at the exhaustion and small comforts of domestic life, told with sympathy and gentle humour.

Created by
Kentarō Takemura, Hiraki Mari
Genres
Drama, Family
Starring
Mikako Tabe, Noriko Eguchi, Dean Fujioka
Overview
Shiho Murakami is a housewife who struggles to raise her 2-year-old daughter and complete her housework. She happens to meet and interact with various people such as a working mother, an elite bureaucrat, who all have similar problems related to housework.

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Created by
Kentarō Takemura, Hiraki Mari
Genres
Drama, Family
Starring
Mikako Tabe, Noriko Eguchi, Dean Fujioka
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How it feels

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • parenthood
  • family
  • gender
  • work
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Where to watch in the UK

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Details

Genres
drama, family
Created by
Kentarō Takemura, Hiraki Mari, Hayashi Masataka
Written by
Hiraki Mari
Starring
Mikako Tabe, Noriko Eguchi, Dean Fujioka, Wataru Ichinose, Nagai Kana, Hiroko Shimabukuro, Momoko Tanabe, Leo Matsumoto
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 46 min each
Network
TBS
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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