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Kinyobi no Tsuma Tachi e
- No.
- ST-00281
- Year
- 1983
- Broadcated
/Created by - ＴＢＳ
- Scriptwriter
- Kamata Toshio
- Format
- drama seriese
- Awards
- Solitude of urban dwellers / No. 1 in The History of TV Drama
- Overview
- Hiroshi and Hisako Nakahara are baby boomers who live in a new suburban town along the Den-en-toshi Line. They have been married for eight years. The couple are blessed with two children and have just realized their dream of purchasing a terrace house. Eiko Murakoshi is Hisako’s classmate from her college days. She is married and has kids, too. The Tamuras lived in the floor above when the Nakaharas used to live in a housing complex. The three couples have known one another for a decade, and they moved to this new suburban town around the same time. They spend time together like family, gathering to eat and drink every week. However, the relationships between the six individuals start to change once Eiko’s husband, Takamasa, asks for a divorce. The narrative unfolds around these three couples, but also involves Reiko, the woman with whom Takamasa is having an affair, and Kayo, a mysterious woman who approaches Hiroshi. It is one of the major TV series of the 1980s and ran in three seasons up to 1985. Flashy suburban terrace houses and interaction between nuclear families; these are what middle-class people yearn for. Toshio Kamata’s script depicts the lives of individual couples and skillfully incorporates romantic incidents that disrupt their lives. The theme is “friendship between husband and wife.” Many women identified themselves with this narrative, which was unlike any that had come before it, and the series caused a social phenomenon known as the “Kintsuma Boom.”
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