Home Sweet Tokyo

Home Sweet Tokyo

2017
📺 4 Seasons
🎬 16 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 20 min/episode
ComedyFamily
Englishman Bryan Jenkins was living peacefully with his Japanese wife Itsuki and daughter Alice in London, when his Japanese mother-in-law suddenly passes away, and the family decides to uproot to Tokyo to look after his father-in-law Tsuneo.

Seasons

Season 1
2017 • 4 Episodes
It has been 3 months and counting since arriving at his wife's family home in Tokyo. Bryan is struggling with the cultural norm of allowing his 6-year-old daughter Alice to walk to school by herself, but his wife insists Japan is safe.
Season 2
2018 • 4 Episodes
Season 3
2019 • 4 Episodes
Still just a few months into their move to Tokyo, life is hectic as ever for Bryan and the Matsuyama-Jenkins family! "Home Sweet Tokyo Season 3" takes the family from bizarre Japanese business meetings and British tea parties, to peaceful rural rice fields and summer festivals, as Bryan & Itsuki, together with their daughter Alice and her traditional grandfather Tsuneo, work together to adjust to their new life in Tokyo.
Season 4
2020 • 4 Episodes
With his wife Itsuki on a business trip abroad, Bryan and Tsuneo set about preparing the Matsuyama-Jenkins household for an incoming typhoon. However, nothing could prepare them for the arrival of Tsuneo's great-niece, Setsuko. Having spent time in the US, "Sets" is not the quiet little girl that Tsuneo remembers and Bryan starts to feel jealous of Alice's "new best friend"! To bring the family together, they dust off his box of Japanese games, but this just brings out everyone's competitive spirit!

Crew

Director
Teruyuki Yoshida
Writer
BJ Fox

Network

NHK WORLD-JAPAN

Production

NHK Enterprises

Keywords

miniseriesfamilymixed racelife