TRUE COLORS
2025 · 1 season · 9 eps · ★ 8.0 · Drama
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A top fashion photographer who, after being diagnosed with a life-altering illness, must overcome overwhelming challenges and find hope and strength in her journey of transformation.
Directed by Takashi Minamoto · Written by Takashi Minamoto
Networks: NHK BS Premium, NHK
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Kana Kurashina Misaki Tachibana -
Katsuya Maiguma Shotarou Matsura -
Kenichi Takitoh Shinya Makigami -
Jun Kaname Tomoyuki Asakura -
Yuki Morinaga Ippei Fujishima -
Kokoro Morita Maiko Sano -
Kayo Ise Miyaoko Shiozawa -
Yūko Natori Junko Kida -
Renji Ishibashi Sakutarou Kijima -
Ken Watanabe Taichirou Tsujimura
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★ 5.82015
MovieComedyDrama
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★ 5.52006
MovieActionDrama
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2019
MovieTV Movie
This is a “Movie in a Movie” like no other ever before. Kyoei, a historical film studio in Kyoto (Modeled on Toei), is asked by NHK to make a new samurai era program using the most advanced technology. While the elderly filmmakers at Kyoei are struggling with the high-tech equipment, their skills at creating choreographed sword battles are undiminished. The NHK project will dramatize the Ikedaya incident, which was a raid launched by the Shinsengumi against Imperial loyalists gathered at an inn called Ikedaya in Kyoto during the twilight years of the Tokugawa shogunate. A series of problems occur and the climax they reach after overcoming difficulties is an unprecedented attempt at a 360° one-cut scene involving the world’s most advanced high-speed camera and wire action for a scene where Kondo Isami will fall down the stairs at Ikedaya. Can they succeed in filming the single greatest swordfight scene in samurai movie history?!?
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