Tokyo Hinkon Joshi Ep 6 out!

 

Finally finished all 6 episodes! I nearly burnt myself out doing 3 episodes in a week. Luckily there was more action in the second half of episode 6 and translating debates is a chore! I always wanted good jdoramas on poverty and religion and I am happy I got Tokyo Hinkon Joshi and Kaso Girei this season. Fukakyon did Silent Poor years ago and I even tried to give it a second chance but that show was so bad.

!!SPOILER ALERT!!

What is interesting about Tokyo Hinkon Joshi is that it looks at causes of poverty especially for women. There are people who think everyone who is poor is just lazy because I know someone who came from nothing and got rich and there are people who do not work but working for a minimum wage in Japan is not really surviving. If you go out drinking in Japan, you will meet women who are hairdressers by day and work 3 night shifts a week to survive. Their work ethic is crazy and not to mention unpaid overtime etc etc.

One of my favourite bits of the show is Kariya not wanting to admit that she needs help and that she is on the edge of poverty and her realisation that she is being reflected in the women she interviews. The similarities with her mother putting up with the abuse and Karita not wanting Mone to turn out like her mother.

I also liked that Sakita did not find his ex in the end. I was very worried when his story started happening because I thought it would overshadow the main theme but him not finding her and her seeing his book is a great last image for the show. Sakita is an interesting character who has been eaten by all the guilt, wallowing in all the misery as penance.  

I won't be subbing anything else for a while because Like a Dragon 8 is out but there is one show that I will definitely sub one day. I have a list of shows I would like to sub and of course most of them are WOWOW but I have a favourite show that I will definitely do. 

Fun fact: I tried to sub Ai Nante Irane Yo, Natsu back in the day but there were no Japanese subs and timing your own subs is such a painfully slow process. Glad to see someone subbed it.

Respect everyone subbing jdoramas because subbing takes so much time and stamina I'd rather watch more jdoramas and jmovies.