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[REVIEW] Going My Home
Sep. 18th, 2013 08:49 pmJapanese Drama
Episodes: 10
Genre: Family
Cast:
- Abe Hiroshi as Tsuboi Ryota
- Yamaguchi Tomoko as Tsuboi Sae
- Miyazaki Aoi as Shimojima Naho
- YOU as Ito Takiko
- Yasuda Ken as Ito Kenji
- Arai Hirofumi as Sanada Shun
- Natsuyagi Isao as Tsuboi Eisuke
- Abe Sadao as Tokunaga Taro
- Yoshiyuki Kazuko asTsuboi Toshiko
- Noshida Toshiyuki as Torii Osamu
- Makita Aju as Tsuboi Moe
- Bakarhythm as Kobayashi Satoru
- Lily as Tsuji Tokiko
- Eguchi Noriko as Nurse Tsutsumi
- Nakamura Yasushi as Reporter Hatakenaka
- Yamanaka Takashi as Police Officer Kaji
- Kase Ryo as Shimojima Megumi
The main character, Tsuboi Ryota, is a salaryman often criticized for being physically big, but with a “small” heart, and he is stuck in a dilemma of not really being able to fit in both at work and at home. But one day, his estranged father falls ill and with that, his “happy enough” life begins to change.
A mysterious beauty, a man who claims to know his father’s past appears, and his father begins to act in strange ways... It turns out, his father had been looking for the legendary “small creature” in his hometown! Though he doesn't believe that it actually exists, he begins to meet with many people to uncover his father’s mystery, and slowly his feelings begin to change.
Maybe, no there’s no such thing...but just maybe...it really does exist?
“The world isn't just made up of things that you can see”
Within the drama, using well-known creatures such as a koro-pok-guru, dwarf, and hobbit as a hint, an original story made just for the drama about a creature called ‘kuna’ will be unveiled. Through the existence of this “kuna”, we hope that people will be able to appreciate how “the power to believe in things we can’t see” such as, the importance of living in and sharing the nature, dreams, love, the bond we share with people, are connected to a happier tomorrow.
Ryota begins to look for the unthinkable thing “that he can’t see.” The big man with a small heart starts on his big journey to find the small creature, and eventually Ryota and his family, all the people he meets, becomes embroiled in this big mess. Will he be able to catch this “kuna”?
At the end of everything, what will he discover...?
Sukaretto says:
p.s. spoilers coming up.
i really like this drama. i thought at first that almost every scene is either awkward or boring. But, it's a good thing that i was so curious with that so-called "kuna" that i continued watching. and aside from the kuna, the characters' relationship to each other became really interesting.
i like how this drama is too realistic. okay, they used a kuna, but they didn't exactly revealed if they're real. those "things that cannot be seen" i think are the characters' feelings. i loved the how the characters and their relationships developed throughout the series. i loved how there was no big reveal at the end, e.g. Naho was really Eisuke's daughter. i loved the awkwardness, that talkative taxi driver who never seemed to remember his passengers. i loved how they regretted some things in their life. i loved how the family trashed-talk other members of the family. especially Tsuboi's family, you can see how they changed, from being awkward and not understanding each other and never really exerting any effort to do so to being a really close and affectionate family. i was kinda expecting that Tsuboi would just live in his parent's house since his mother was planning to sell it. but yea, expect the unexpected.
this drama might not be one of those "unforgettable" ones but the cast was superb (especially Abe Hiroshi), the story and the pacing was superb.
My Ratings: i'll give this 4/5 :)
