Arechi no Koi
In 1947, a year heavily tinged by the scars of war, Kitazawa Taro, Mitamura Kiichi, Arikawa Nobuo and other fellow poets who would play a central role in post-war Japan’s modern poetry movement gathered for the launch of the poetry magazine ‘Arechi’. 28 years later in 1975, a 53-year-old Kitazawa works at a newspaper’s proofreading department as he continues scrape by composing poetry. Although he is not prolific as a poet, he cherishes ordinary happiness every day surrounded by his wife Haruko and their daughter Yuko and son Sho. But a big turning point comes for Kitazawa one day. He develops frequent contact with Akiko, the wife of his good friend Mitamura. Falling in love with her, he abandons his job and leaves his wife Haruko and two children behind. As he starts to live with Akiko who has also left home, he recovers an unprecedented passion and “words”. Each of them start to live the life of the “wasteland”. --JDramas Weblog
Year: 2016
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Studio: WOWOW Prime
Director:
Cast: Kyoka Suzuki, Yasuko Tomita, Umika Kawashima, Yutaka Matsushige, Etsushi Toyokawa
Crew: Hisako Kurosawa (Script), Takayoshi Watanabe (Script), 植田春菜 (Producer), Akira Morishige (Producer), SHIMIZU Keitaro (Producer), Takayoshi Watanabe (Director)
First Air Date: Jan 09, 2016
Last Air date: Feb 06, 2016
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 5 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 9.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 3.8379
Language: Japanese
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