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Miyuki Amagai becomes the first female pilot of the Shinkai 6500 in Japan. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) had put effort into her first submersible across the organisation. Miyuki’s father had also been active as a brilliant pilot and researcher of JAMSTEC, but died of illness without fulfilling his life ambition. Miyuki is intent on discovering herself in the deep sea that her late father had told her about when she was a child. However, at one time, she finds shocking footage from her father’s locker of the last submersible that he had allegedly piloted, and is assailed by fear. Edit Translation

  • English
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • dansk
  • Norsk
  • Country: Japan
  • Type: Drama
  • Episodes: 6
  • Aired: Oct 10, 2015 - Nov 14, 2015
  • Aired On: Saturday
  • Original Network: WOWOW
  • Duration: 49 min.
  • Score: 7.5 (scored by 55 users)
  • Ranked: #22530
  • Popularity: #17094
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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pash
7 people found this review helpful
Aug 10, 2021
6 of 6 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 10
Rewatch Value 5.0
This review may contain spoilers
I must confess that my not-so-high grade depends highly on the fact that I had expected something completely different, and was therefore a little bit (heck, a whole lot, actually ^__^) taken aback. In fact, judging from the synopsis and the "mystery" tag, I was expecting something more similar to the manga "6000", but I soon realized how wrong I was.
In this short dorama, the mystery part is rather a pretext to portray, in an original setting, a very Japanese (and per se quite beautiful) story of a good daughter trying hard to realize her late father's dream (for those of you familiar with East Asian / Confucian values, that's one of their cornerstones of course: filial piety!).
All that might have been wasted on some, who even went so far as to throw around some deeply insulting accusations - I noticed in fact a comment actually accusing this dorama of sexism (!) - needless to say, I couldn't disagree more, that's a totally preposterous accusation (tantamount to accusing all Asian dramas of racism because they don't have black actors! >___<). Sorry to sound so harsh, but the only explanation I can find as to how such a baseless accusation was formulated is a total lack of understanding of Japanese culture in particular, and more generally, of East Asian values and traditions.
The character portrayed by Arimura Kasumi is on the contrary a very strong young woman (the fact that she doesn't behave like a man doesn't mean she's weak in the least!), who overcomes many difficulties and even some mistakes (not depending on the fact that she's a woman, but rather on her young age and inexperience!) so as to grow stronger. And she does so brilliantly, improving herself deeply, and in the end having a profound impact on the people around her and ultimately on the whole story. A beautifully scripted character indeed!
Endo Kenichi's character is also nicely scripted, imho, whereas the rest are a bit "meh", unfortunately...
The lovely music accompanying the whole series is a nice touch too, imho!
Too bad the mystery part is quite dull, honestly...in Italian there's an idiom, "la montagna che partorì un sassolino" ("the mountain that gave birth to a pebble"), that can be used for a situation like this where the buildup makes you expect something big, only to be revealed as...a big letdown in the end...and that's the reason why I didn't give this a higher grade. Still, it's a pleasant watch! ^___-

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Details

  • Drama: Umi ni Furu
  • Country: Japan
  • Episodes: 6
  • Aired: Oct 10, 2015 - Nov 14, 2015
  • Aired On: Saturday
  • Original Network: WOWOW
  • Duration: 49 min.
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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  • Score: 7.5 (scored by 55 users)
  • Ranked: #22530
  • Popularity: #17094
  • Watchers: 233

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