Your mom's in a coma and her diary just exposed decades of lies—road trip time!
Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestMiyata Ayaka (Renbutsu Misako), an office worker, sees her world collapse around her when her mother Miyata Harumi (Kikuchi Momoko) collapses due to illness and is left in a coma because of it. She then discovers that her mother kept a secret diary that she writes with her high school friends and that the lies she has told her have become evident, with nothing to lose. Ayaka will travel to Kaga, in Ishikawa Prefecture, her mother's hometown, to try to clarify the truth of the lie in her mother's secret diary.
Acting
Renbutsu Misako's restrained unraveling as truth after truth drops
Cinematography
Kaga's traditional crafts districts shot like memory itself
Writing
Diary entries that reframe everything you thought you knew
Misako Renbutsu
Miyata Ayaka
Momoko Kikuchi
Miyata Harumi
Aoi Nakamura
Hiyama Yuichi
Nene Otsuka
Takano Chinatsu
Mari Hamada
Katase Akie
Naomi Nishida
Tanimura Fuyuko
Kohei Otomo
Ishida Shizuo
Yōko Yamamoto
Miyata Makiko
Naoto Ogata
Takano Makoto
Momiji Yamamura
Hiyama Sayuri
Atsuko Anami
Miyata Naomi
Noriko Iriyama
Hiyama Kyoko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kaga Yuzen silk dyeing and Kutani pottery aren't just backdrop—the traditional crafts mirror the series' themes of layers, burning, and permanent transformation.
Momoko Kikuchi, playing the mother, was a massive 80s idol whose own public image was carefully constructed; casting her as a woman with secret diaries adds metatextual weight to every flashback.
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