The Blue Sky Maiden

The Blue Sky Maiden

195789 min7.0 / 10

A mid-century family drama about identity and belonging, centered on a young woman's discovery of her true origins in a coastal setting, balancing gentle comedy with emotional revelation.

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

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