Chikamatsu Monogatari
The tortured heart behind the cultivated image.
DramaRomancejapanescapesuicide attemptloverloveextramarital affairbankruptcykyoto, japanlocked injidaigekisocial class17th century
A deeply melancholic period romance about two people whose love is born from scandal and social ruin, exploring the tension between desire and duty in 17th-century Japan.
When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.
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