A city girl marries a country boy in 3 months—what could POSSIBLY go wrong? (Spoiler: everything adorable.)
Season 1 • Episode 26
LatestOne night, Jiro and Reiko fell in love at first sight, and on the seventh day he proposed to her, and three months later they were married. However, the difference in upbringing between Jiro, who was born and raised in a farmhouse in Shinshu, and Reiko, who is a city girl by nature, sometimes causes small ripples in their sweet newlywed life.
Acting
Kurihara's side-eye game is ELITE—every glance is a whole argument
Writing
Yamada's dialogue finds war in breakfast miso soup
Direction
Kinoshita frames domestic spaces like emotional battlegrounds
Creators
Keisuke Kinoshita, Taichi Yamada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Kinoshita's pivot to television after 25 years as a prestige film director—basically the Scorsese of his era doing a Netflix deal.
Yamada adapted his own novel and later won Japan's Academy Prize; his specialty was making ordinary family conflict feel cosmically significant.
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