by Perry Seibert
synopsis
Isshin Inudou's drama Bizan concerns a woman named Sakiko (Nanako Matsushima) who returns home when her mother (Nobuko Miyamoto) goes into the hospital. The daughter discovers in quick succession that not only is her mother dying, but the father she never met, and thought had been deceased, is actually alive. Sakiko sets off to find him, guided only by a stash of letters he wrote to her mother.
