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Keiko Kishi (岸惠子)

99 Years of Love: JAPANESE AMERICANS

99年の愛~JAPANESE AMERICANS   99 년의 사랑〜JAPANESE AMERICANS   99年的愛〜JAPANESE AMERICANS

150 min x 2 eps / 139 min x 2 eps / 125 min x 1 ep|5 episodes

99 years ago, a Japanese man emigrated to the vast expanse of America with hopes of survival and dreams of a brighter future. He and those like him were settlers, 1st generation Japanese-Americans. From them were issued a second generation which grew up bearing little knowledge of, nor devotion to, their parents’ homeland. And yet fate was to deliver them all a cruel blow... as war proceeded to tear them apart along national and generational lines. This is a story about Japanese immigrants who endured the horrors and tragedy of war, overcame deep prejudice and attained their dreams in a new land through love and courage.

The Eldest Boy and His Three Elder Sisters

末っ子長男姉三人   막내장남 누나셋   老么真命苦

75 min x 1 ep. / 60 min x 9 eps.|10 episodes

Haruko Takanashi is 30. She works at a radio station, and is approaching middle management where good looks alone aren’t enough. She isn’t very romantic so she devotes herself to work and play and suddenly finds herself alone. Just when she has given up on romance she meets a man at a party to which she was taken by a subordinate at work. He is 25-year-old Ichiro Kashiwakura and is nothing out of the ordinary. They start a relationship, and one day, out of the blue, Ichiro ardently proposes to Haruko. Realizing that he really loves her, Haruko says yes and they get married. But she still hasn’t told him her real age. Now Haruko has to cope with living with Ichiro’s mother, Satoko, eldest sister Setsuko who has returned home, 2nd daughter Kazuko who has just returned from a prestigious overseas post with her company and the third daughter Sachiko who seems to have reached a bit of a dead end in her life. Competition for Ichiro’s attention is only one of many problems that arise!

Maria

マリア   마리아   瑪莉亞

75 min. x 1 ep. / 60 min. x 9 eps.|10 episodes

Sora, the third daughter of four sisters, is a selfless soul who runs a medical clinic she inherited from her father which cares for primarily poor and weak patients. Sora is shocked to learn that she has a younger step-sister, Hiyo, whom her father had out of wedlock, and is loath to accept her into the family. However, it is revealed that Hiyo has a secret which pits Sora’s dislike for her step-sister against her otherwise generous nature.