Date
Saturdays, 9.00 – 9.58 p.m., 14 June 2014
Website
www.nhk.or.jp/dodra/hellolife
Station
NHK
Story
A 5-part omnibus drama about the wishes of the middle-aged on growing old. Everyone has passed the halfway mark but despite their anxieties about the future, they search for new paths without flinching away from those insecurities. Reemployment, the death of a pet, spouse hunting in old age, love in old age, separation from a good friend. Is it possible to make a fresh start in life?
Camping Car
Synopsis: Fuyu Taro (Lily Franky), a successful salesman for a major furniture maker, decides to retire early at the age of 55. His sales style of earning money by pounding the pavement with trust and hard work as his motto has also become outdated. Reflecting on a life spent devoted to work, he now dreams of travelling around the country with his wife Nagiko (Toda Keiko) in a camping car. However, Fuyu’s plan for old age is opposed Nagiko who lives for attending drawing classes and producing paintings. She dislikes financial uncertainty and the loss of her own personal time. Because he has already paid the deposit, even his time is in limbo. Fuyu has no choice but to re-enter the workforce. However, reality is harsher than he imagined. His ineptness is pointed out by a young career counsellor (Kobayashi Takashika), he is also snubbed the company president (Nakamura Ikuji) of the business connection he goes to consult, and gradually loses his physical and mental balance.
Cast: Lily Franky, Toda Keiko, Ichikawa Mikako, Hashizume Ryo, Kobayashi Takashika, Tanaka Ryosei, Nakamura Ikuji, Pierre Taki, Hasegawa Hiroki
Pet Loss
Synopsis: 55-year-old housewife Takamaki Yoshiko (Fubuki Jun) lives happily with her pet dog Bobby, the Shiba Inu she decided to keep when her only son was posted overseas. She showers all her love on Bobby and her daily pleasure is taking a walk with Yoshida (Sera Masanori), a widower who owns a doberman, and Bobby. Yoshida, a famous designer, is one of the pet lovers in the neighbourhood that Yoshiko interacts with and she has faint feelings for him. But her husband Kohei (Matsuo Suzuki), who has retired from an ad agency, intrudes into her life. Kohei hates dogs and their relationship deteriorates. Meanwhile, Bobby is diagnosed with an enlarged heart. Yoshiko quarrels with Kohei, and shuts herself away in a closet with Bobby. Unwilling to sleep and eat, she nurses the dog as if her life depends on it. Kohei, who was initially indifferent to Bobby’s illness, cannot bear to see his wife like this, and also starts to help. But … …
Cast: Fubuki Jun, Matsuo Suzuki, Makino Nozomi, Ichiro Maki, Sera Masanori
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Cast: Kobayashi Kaoru
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