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Kōrogi Bashi

Kōrogi Bashi poster
Genre
drama television series
Country
Japan

How it feels

In 1946 Japan, a young woman named Sawako leaves her teaching job at a mountain school to return to her family's inn and take a husband. When her new husband disappears, she must struggle to keep the inn running after her grandmother dies.

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What happens

『こおろぎ橋』(こおろぎばし)は、1978年10月2日-1979年3月30日にTBS系で放送された連続テレビドラマ。 昭和21年、山中温泉の老舗旅館「みゆきや」の一人娘佐和子は女学校を出て山の分校の教師になった。素朴な子供たちとの日々は充実していたが、心ならずも婿を取るために山中に帰らなければならなくなる。婿に入ったのは隣町の旅館の次男幹夫であった。幹夫は佐和子と初恋の相手、新太郎との仲を疑い、酒におぼれた挙句姿を消してしまう。その矢先、祖母のぬいが亡くなり、佐和子は旅館を守るために必死で生きぬいてゆく。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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