Angels with Broken Wings
2006
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 8 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 JA
⏱️ 37 min/episode
Drama
A miniseries starring famous actresses, based on the short story collection "Tsubasa no Oreta Tenshitachi" by the author Yoshi. This dark drama has a different story for each episode, as the name of the series "Angels With Broken Wings" hints, the common theme is women who have lost their way in life. The series touches subjects like prostitution, peer pressure, gambling, theft and isolation.
Seasons
Season 1
Komine Nanako is working in a courier. When she was a child, her parents had no money, so now she wants some. Every week she sleeps with men to get some money. Every week she becomes a celebrity (using that money), she is a special customer of a select shop, and this is the most important thing to her. For the sake of this weekly visit, she can do anything. One day she meets a girl and her views about money changes.
Season 2
Yoshimura Yuri works on the night shift at a convenience store. Depressed, she has given up on life, and numerous times, she attempts to commit suicide. Yuri is haunted by her past; back in school, she cut herself, but her mother, instead of caring, accused her of doing so just to attract attention. Now, she is required to visit the doctor for monthly check-ups. At the convenience store she works at, she meets Nagasaka Hiroki, an optimistic university student, who is curious about why she acts so negatively towards life.
Crew
Producer
Kazuyuki Shimizu
Network
Fuji TV
Keywords
based on novel or bookanthology