AKA: Welcome to my home
Genre: Family, Suspense
Episodes: 10
Broadcast period: 2015-Apr to
2015-Jun
Theme song: Aozora no Shita, Kimi
no Tonari by Arashi
Cast: Aiba Masaki, Sawajiri
Erika, Arimura Kasumi, Minami Kaho and Terao Akira,
Kurata Kenta (Aiba
Masaki) is a coward who avoids confrontation and disputes. Due to his
upbringing he never bothers other people or does he trouble people, and uses
preferably the sentence “I’m sorry” in any given circumstance. His father is
the same way, and his mother is a happy person who never stops smiling. The
only one in the family with a serious personality is the daughter, who is the
complete opposite of everyone else.
The family is happy
and loving family, until one day Kenta finds his courage and tells off a man who
bothers people at the train platform. Here he also meets Kandori Asuka
(Sawariji Erika) a woman that always speaks her mind without holding back.
After the situation
the man runs off in embarrassment - but when Kenta takes the bus home that very
man appears in the same bus. Creeped out Kenta gets out of the bus only to be
followed by the man and it escalates with the man running after Kenta. Kenta
runs around the neighborhood, and manages to lose him. The next morning though
the flowerbeds in front of their house are ripped out. Unsure whether or not it
is that man, Kenta wants to figure out who he is, and by pure luck meets Asuka
again, who introduces herself as a journalist willing to help finding out the
stalker.
But as it turns out
more and more things start to happen to the family, continuously bothering
them. Who can it be, and why the Kurata family?
My reason for watching
this was mainly Aiba so I did not really read the summary of the plot. But I
think that did kind of the good part here, not know what to expect.
The drama is a mellow
family story with a psychological twist to it, as it is very disturbing to know
that due to a little confrontation you can become a victim of severe stalking
and what I call ‘chain-stalking’. And to
be honest, even though it isn’t all horror, it made my mouth dry quite a few
times. Just the thought of ‘what-if-it-had-happened-to-me’ made me shiver. As I
said: dirsturbing.
As a general it doesn’t
isn’r scary, and the family is so adorable and fun to watch, so you don’t get
that bored, but to be honest it is a bit too ‘chain-stalkerish’… you’ll get
what I mean when/if you see it. And I wasn’t all that excited to find out the
ending. Aiba is great as always, and to be honest everyone was good at acting,
even Sawariji whom I never really liked before.
All in all: a good and
interesting family drama with a hint of suspense.
☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars
♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts
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