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飛んで火に入る春の嫁

飛んで火に入る春の嫁 poster
Genre
drama television series
Country
Japan

How it feels

A nurse named Taeko meets a man named Mikio whose mother is in the hospital. They get married at his family's old sushi shop in Tokyo. On the day of the wedding, Mikio's father returns after seven years, and Mikio suddenly collapses from a stroke.

lightheartedquirkynostalgicwarmoffbeatslow-pacedemotionaldomesticsmall-scale

What happens

『飛んで火にいる春の嫁』(とんでひにいるはるのよめ)は、1998年4月15日から同年6月24日まで、テレビ東京系列で放送されたテレビドラマ。放送時間は毎週水曜20:00 - 20:54 (JST) 。全11話。 准看護婦の妙子は、東京・深川で120年以上続く老舗寿司店を営む幹夫と、幹夫の母が入院していた病院で知り合い、結婚する。 結婚披露宴は幹夫の店の2階で行うことになった。挙式当日、店を放り出し放浪の旅に出ていたという幹夫の父・卓三が7年ぶりに帰ってきた。そして、披露宴の席で幹夫が突然脳梗塞で倒れてしまう。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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