A bank drone, a runaway wife, and one chaotic old lady walk into a family drama.
Season 1 • Episode 1
LatestMorita Kazuhiro is an ordinary bank employee whose wife left him to live with her parents. After one year of living apart he ends up being put in charge of a new client, a troublesome old woman. While following that woman's advice, he tries his best to make his family whole again.
Morita Kazuhiro is an ordinary bank employee whose wife left him to live with her parents. After one year of living apart he ends up being put in charge of a new client, a troublesome old woman. While following that woman's advice, he tries his best to make his family whole again.
Acting
Atsushi Ito's restrained desperation as a man learning to feel
Direction
Fujii finds poetry in convenience stores and bank lobbies
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Michihito Fujii specializes in 'nobody' protagonists — his 2018 film 'The Journalist' similarly finds drama in bureaucratic mediocrity.
The 'satogaeri' tradition of married daughters returning to parents haunts this story — post-bubble Japan's economic anxiety made such separations increasingly common.
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