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異母姉妹

異母姉妹 poster
Genre
drama television series
Country
Japan

How it feels

A young woman moves to Tokyo after her mother dies of leukemia. She follows her mother's dying wish to live with a family friend. She soon suspects that the family friend might actually be her biological father.

mid-centurymelodramaticsuspensefulblack-and-whiteemotionaldomesticsoap-operaatmospheric

What happens

『異母姉妹』(いぼしまい)はフジテレビ系ライオン奥様劇場枠で1966年9月5日~11月4日に放送された連続テレビ映画である。白黒作品。全45回。 母を白血病で失った秋山遥子は、その遺言により戦死した父の親友で建設会社社長の楠見を頼って上京した。しかし楠見の妻律子の憎しみの視線を浴びた時から、遥子の心にはある疑惑が生じた。それは楠見が自分の父ではないかという疑いであった。やがてその真相は思わぬところから明らかになる。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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