Hikon Kazoku (2001)

Matoba's family's life's

Since the main leads are all related somehow by theirs names, I will refer to them by their first name. Yosuke is the main main lead, He's an office worker with a predictable life, but once he gets home his wife Hikaru(28yo) asks for divorce, they were lovely together 5 seconds before that, He can't comprehend. They have a son(Shota), she leaves them both. To add to this his job is at risky. In the meantime he finds his ex-wife: Chikako, she's in her 30's and is a successful business woman, she can't handle see him in this bad situation and offer a helping hand. Later we meet the guys Nazu and Kikuta.

Yosuke do have a character development, to the point that his first priority do changes, He's a jerk and think women are there or to work for him or to sleep with him, he has no much respect for women, He's also very stubborn making his problems escalate faster. The ladies: Chikako has a secret relationship we see her deal with the consequences of it. Hikaru has a dream, she no longer can handle the strings of being married. They add another lady later, Serina. Yosuke is popular!

The drama is a soft family melodrama, every time we think it will go down to pure angst they do some slight comedy, so it's not heavy, but still sad. Bittersweet. The never ending complications and feelings they have for each other can make the plot a bit tiring, and more characters are added near the end making it worse for those that can't handle realistic love life and people being humane with flaws, and not robots with perfect behavior as we see in K-Dramas. The best scenes was when the family(or alikes) were together or when they finally can be happy about their endings in each of their quest, talking about ending, the writer was wild, extremely not popular decisions, and I'm in for it. We need more realistic endings like that, even I who's not into many popular tags got annoyed somehow,*
Spoiler out of context:
*but just cause a child should not be a reason to marry
The acting was good enough for most actors, except Kikuta's actor, he is really bad. The OST is cringe, old and tacky American love songs. Since it's an old drama photography and camera work will be the reflection of their year production, good enough too.

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