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Food Themed Japanese Dramas I Watched Recently

Hello, everyone! I've been so productive lately, hehe. As written in the title, today I want to share Japanese dramas with food as their themes.  1. Boukyaku no Sachiko (A Meal Makes Her Forget) Native Title:  忘却のサチコ Screenwriter and Director: Santa Yamagishi Screenwriters: Satomi Oshima, Kyoko Inukai  Genres: Food, Romance Casts: Mitsuki Takahata, Taichi Saotome, Shono Hayama, and others. Episodes: 12 Aired: October 12, 2018 - December 28, 2018 Sachiko Sasaki (Mitsuki Takahata) works in a publishing company as an editor. Recently, she was left by her fiancé (Taichi Saotome) on her wedding day. Stressed out, Sachiko finds comfort through food and while she's eating, she forgets about her fiancé.  This drama is hilarious. I mean, yes, we're sad when we saw that fiancé easily walked away on their wedding day, leaving Sachiko wondering what's wrong with their relationship, since Shungo (her fiancé) never said a word other than "sorry". But at the same time, innoc

Japanese Movie Review: Rurou no Tsuki (Wandering) (2022)

Are you an open minded person? If so, you might want to give this movie a try. *** Hello, everyone! So, today, I want to share a quick, simple review about a movie, Wandering ( 流浪の月) . (The official movie poster) Native Title:  流浪の月 Other Titles: The Wandering Moon Screenwriter & Director: Lee Sang Il Genres: Mystery, Drama Cast: Suzu Hirose, Tori Matsuzaka, Ryusei Yokohama, Tamaki Shiratori, Mikako Tabe, and others. Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes. Wandering tells a story of a 9-year-old Sarasa Kanai (Tamaki Shiratori) who got invited by 19-year-old University student, Fumi Saeki (Tori Matsuzaka) to come to his house. For the next 2 months the two lives together and forms a strange bound, until Fumi was arrested by the police for a kidnapping. Then, years later, Sarasa (Suzu Hirose) is an adult now. She works part time in a family restaurant and lives with a seems kind but controlling boyfriend, Ryo Nagase (Ryusei Yokohama). Sarasa feels that her life is empty and she knows that