Keyword: Culture & Entertainment
Tristan Vick here.
In Japan, there is a limited television viewing selection in the way of evening dramas, comedies, and variety television (live shows, cooking, interviews, game shows, etc.).
And, quite literally, all of the dramas happen to be contemporary!
Think shows about salarymen / women, shows about high school / junior high school kids, young romance, entrance exams, bullying and mundane school drama, shows about your local police officer at the koban or state police (almost always set in or around Tokyo), and shows about modern Japanese family life, etc.
There is almost nothing in the way of historical period dramas unless it is a samurai drama. And, then, that’s the ONLY type of historical dramas Japan seems to have (I know there are probably more but the oversaturation of samurai dramas is mind-boggling).
I’m currently watching The Naked Director on NETFLIX and am loving it.
It’s about the rise of Japan’s pornography film industry and of Toru Muranishi whose innovative approaching to selling sex to the public threatened to place him in prison with a 300-year sentence.
It’s very fascinating and very well written and produced historical drama. But definitely racy with lots of adult content.