Greetings after a spot of radio silence! Real life kept me busy for a while, but I’ve finally had the time to sit down and work through a drama. Thankfully, it’s of the nice and slow variety, and I found it difficult to resist the combination of Odagiri Joe and Ono Machiko in a genre the Japanese tend to excel in.
Sakurai Taro (Odagiri Joe) lives with his grandmother Akiko (Yachigusa Kaoru) and cat Mii-chan in an old part of town, where they run an old-fashioned candy shop called Sakuraya. The shop doesn’t make much money and has only a few customers. Grandma is worried that keeping the candy shop running is holding Taro back from a brighter future, but Taro wants to keep it going for Grandma’s sake. One day, Taro gets a surprise visitor when his childhood friend and now single mother Reiko (Ono Machiko) returns to the neighbourhood… Continue reading
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