DRAMA
Coming Home
DRAMA
2004
50 mins Episode(s): 1
English
English
English
English
Best Drama Award at The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan.
Yoko escaped her small port town in Japan where she was raised by her mother, to pursue her dream of becoming an actress in Tokyo.
Finally about to make her big break, her mother’s sudden illness brings Yoko home for the first time in five years. Thoughts of her long estranged mother move Yoko to pass up her big chance and remain in her hometown for a while.
Yoko escaped her small port town in Japan where she was raised by her mother, to pursue her dream of becoming an actress in Tokyo.
Finally about to make her big break, her mother’s sudden illness brings Yoko home for the first time in five years. Thoughts of her long estranged mother move Yoko to pass up her big chance and remain in her hometown for a while.
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