by Sandra Brennan
synopsis
In this Japanese melodrama, set during the last years of WW II, Tsukasa, a high school student, ends up marrying a manipulative teacher after he sabotages her relationship with a college student. Not long after the wedding, he begins beating her so frequently that she runs away from him. She is soon happily involved with a Korean. Unfortunately, her cruel husband reappears and gets her fired from her new job. They divorce and she marries another student. Her new husband is drafted into the army. He is killed at sea, and she is left with a baby and little hope.
characteristics
- Spouse
- Mistreatment
- Abuse
- Sea
- Relations
- Physical-abuse
- School
- Student
- Wedding
- War
- Toddlers
- Teaching
- Teacher
- Love
- Death
