The Banana Guide to Asian Entertainment: It’s All About Japan: Part III
Greetings, YAMMies! We are on the third part of my Japanese entertainment journey of a series on the Banana views on Asian entertainment.
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Editor’s Chatroom: TV Shows, Better When They’re Short?
On this weeks Editor’s Chatroom Julyssa and Amy discuss the length of tv-series. What is better? Longer seasons with many episodes, or shorter seasons with fewer episodes?
While Brazil Telenovelas Shrink Families, Jdramas Seek to Expand Them?
Is Japanese television trying to tell Japanese women something about having families?
Hula Girls
Hula Girls, set in the 1960s, follows a group of girls that set out to learn to hula dance in order to save their town from the decline of the coal mining industry. The heads of families are losing their jobs, and tensions arise from the fact that they want to open a Hawaiian center in a really cold city.
Mother (Jdrama)
Mother is an 11-episode Japanese drama that deals with various issues such as child adoption, foster parents, parent abuse, and the more taboo subject of the spousal abuse.
