Asura (2025) – Japanese TV Drama Review
Erik, the Asian Movie Enthusiast presents:
A review of “Asura”, a Japanese drama television series from 2025 that was directed by Hirokazu Koreeda and has an absolutely loaded cast, which includes Rie Miyazawa, Machiko Ono, Yu Aoi, Suzu Hirose, Masahiro Motoki, Jun Kunimura and Ryuhei Matsuda.
The following plot synopsis was taken from the Roger Ebert website. “Koreeda wrote and directed all seven episodes of this adaptation of the 1970s Japanese novel of the same name by Mu-koda Ku-niko, the story of a father’s infidelity and how it sends ripples out to his daughters and the people in their lives. Set in Tokyo, “Asura” stars the legendary Jun Kunimura (“The Wailing”) as an ordinary man in his 70’s patriarch with four grown daughters. The shyest of his girls, Takiko (played by Yu Aoi), hires a private investigator to look into her suspicions about her father and discovers that not only does dad have a mistress, but there’s a child in his life that calls him papa.”.
This is an easy recommendation. It’s a high quality J-drama.
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3件のコメント
Great series! Jun Kunimura is doing his best work in the latter half of his career, Naked Director, Pachinko, Asura.
Hello
Kore-eda and an incredible casting ? Great !
Thanks to vpn, I hope to catch it.
Thanck you so much for this good news.
Koreeda can do no wrong in my eyes and his previous Netflix series Makanai was fantastic with a similarly talented ensemble cast.