Hirugao: Love Affairs in the Afternoon

Overview:

Life is simple for Sasamoto Sawa, a young housewife, but when the adulteress Takigawa Rikako moves into her neighborhood, so too does a new world of sophistication and sex. After Takigawa is nearly caught in the act, Sasamoto covers for her during the ensuing aftermath, unwittingly involving herself with a handsome teacher named Kitano Yuichi — and discovering her own desires for extramarital passions.

Created by:

Status:

Ended

Language:

Japanese

First air date:

7/17/2014

Last air date:

9/25/2014

Key words:

japan
romance
extramarital affair

Seasons

Specials

1 Episodes

Season 1

11 Episodes

Cast

Aya Ueto

~ as ~

Sawa Sasamoto

Michiko Kichise

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Rikako Takikawa

Takumi Saitoh

~ as ~

Yuichiro Kitano

Kazuki Kitamura

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Osamu Kato

Kosuke Suzuki

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Shunsuke Sasamoto

Ayumi Ito

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Noriko Kitano

Haruka Kinami

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Misuzu Hasegawa

Houka Kinoshita

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Toru Takigawa

Yasushi Fuchikami

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Tomoya Hagiwara

Atsuko Takahata

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Keiko Sasamoto

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Reviews (1)

ParkMin
Written 1 year(s) ago
3
You'd think there was room for this deep dive into human desires and the messiness of relationships, but the drama just stumbled into this predictable mess of melodrama and characters you could barely see through. The characters were supposedly torn apart by the whole moral dilemma of their sneaky affairs but they did the bare minimum in that regard. Even the romantic tension felt too forced, superficial and lacking. The drama would've benefited from focusing on the main infidelity only. In comparison, all the previous points also applies to the KR version except that they were less drastic and detached than this one.