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金曜日の妻たちへIII

1985 · 1 season

A quiet, lingering look at rekindled longing and the quiet damage it does to the people standing nearby.

Genres
Drama
Overview
This is the story of a couple who broke up before marriage and reunite after more than a decade. Keiichirō (Ikkyō Furuya) and Kiriko (Ayumi Ishikawa) are unable to forget one another and end up getting together, but Kiriko and Keiichirō’s wife, Ayako (Hiroko Shino), are close friends who have known each other since childhood…

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • love
    • betrayal
    • guilt
    • identity
    • friendship
    Places
    • big city
    • home
    • workplace
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance6
    Tension5
    Darkness5
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Created by
    Toshihiro Iijima
    Written by
    Toshio Kamata
    Starring
    Ikko Furuya, Tomoko Ogawa, Ayumi Ishida, Hiroko Shino, Eiji Okuda
    Length
    1 seasons, 2 episodes, 54 min each
    Network
    TBS
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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