Title: 華和家の四姉妹 Hanawake no Yon Shimai
English Title: The Hanawa Sisters
Country: Japan
Languge: Japanese
Year: 2011
Episode: 11
Cast:
- 観月ありさ Mizuki Alisa
- 貫地谷しほり Kanjiya Shihori
- 吉瀬美智子 Kichise Michiko
- 川島海荷Kawashima Umika
- 遠藤憲一 Endo Kenichi
- 宮崎美子Miyazaki Yoshiko
- 加藤シゲアキ Kato Shigeaki
- 田中哲司 Tanaka Tetsushi
SYNOPSIS
Hanawa Takemi is the second daughter of the Hanawa family. She has been divorced twice and she has three children from her previous marriages. She moves back to the family home when her third marriage falls apart because she finds out during the wedding that her groom is still married to his previous wife. She's extremely beautiful and all men are helpless to her charms.
Hanawa Sakurako is the third daughter of the Hanawa family. She's plain and old-fashioned. She works at a hair company and she has no boyfriend. She meets Mashiko Shozaburo and they have a one-night stand.
Hanawa Ume is the youngest child and she's studying art in college. Hanawake Fujiko is the eldest daughter and she's an assistant editor at a fashion magazine.
REVIEW
Hanawake Yon Shimai is mainly about Hanawa Takemi and she is a very interesting character. She is well-loved by men but detested by women, particularly by her three sisters. She is always being judged negatively by other people because of the way she looks and the way she dresses.
Although it would seem that the misunderstandings can be resolved if Takemi changes the way she carries herself, it would seem kind of pointless because Takemi has no control over how people would see her and judge her. So I think it's best that she be the person that she really is and dress the way she wants to dress, and just let other people form their own opinions of her. If these opinions are different from who she really is, she can always change these opinions when she interacts with these people and eventually these people will see her for who she really is.
Mashiko Shozaburo is a very twisted character. He had a one-night stand with Hanawa Sakurako and he eventually started a relationship with her, even going as far as to live together with Sakurako and plan to get married to Sakurako. But the very next day after his one-night stand with Sakurako, he sees Takemi and also becomes attracted to her. Even when he is already Sakurako's boyfriend and when he finds out that Sakurako is Takemi's younger sister, he would go around and confess his feelings to Takemi.
I would think that Shozaburo, when he finds himself attracted to two women, would take some time to figure out his real feelings. After finding out who he has stronger romantic feelings for and who he wants to have a future with, he would then pursue a relationship with this person. I think this is what a rational and normal person would have done under the circumstances.
Shozaburo's actions made the already fragile relationship between sisters Takemi and Sakurako much worse. When the romantic entanglements initially came out into the open, it really seemed that Takemi and Sakurako will go on separate ways. So I think it's fortunate that Takemi and Sakurako are able to move past this complication with Shozaburo and have eventually managed to remain in cordial relations with each other.
Cheating is very much a major theme of this drama, with the Hanawa sisters' father also cheating on their mother. Takemi was very understanding and accepting of her father but the other sisters are really angry with their father for cheating on their mother.
Personally, I'm also not very understanding when it comes to cheating. I think cheating on someone is a grievous offense because if you want out of the relationship, it is quite easy to go to the other person and say what you feel. Although it would hurt the other person if you break up with him or her, he or she would feel less hurt compared to betraying her trust and love.
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華和家の四姉妹 Hanakawe no Yon Shimai
