8.045 minSeason 2 • Episode 8
Latest58-year-old Gentaro Ito lives with his wife Chizuru in a house in Tokyo. Each of their three daughters should have left home and lived well. However, their eldest daughter, 28-year-old Yuka, is single and doing well at work but has a propensity for affairs. Their 25-year-old second daughter, Rika, wedded a highly educated man and lives in Osaka but the couple are on the brink of divorce. Their youngest daughter, 22-year-old Mika, is also single, and the moment she gets to start living on her own, she half-cohabits with a man who does not seem like he will be a successful manga artist. Gentaro worries endlessly about his daughters who are poor judges of character. Completely ignoring their tastes, this stubborn, old-fashioned father suddenly brings a man whom he likes to the house in the middle of the night and introduces him to his daughters. In fact, this man is Yuka's ex-boyfriend. What will the family be like the next day!?
Acting
Kotaro Yoshida's magnificent stubborn dad energy
Writing
Sharp generational comedy that never punches down
Production
Intimate Tokyo home setting feels lived-in and real
Creator
Masatoshi Yamaguchi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'amae' dynamic — Japanese interdependence where parental meddling is simultaneously resented and expected — fuels every chaotic dinner scene.
Creator Masatoshi Yamaguchi specializes in stories about stubborn men who won't change; Gentaro's refusal to evolve is the point, not a flaw.
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