Happy New Year 2014!
NHK announces the new morning drama for housewives: Okaasan and Me.
Starring a young(ish) British girl who falls in love with a Japanese man.
And has to share her bed of roses with his mother.
Okaasan.
Week by week she learns how to be a perfect Japanese daughter-in-law.
She cooks tofu, she measures miso, she folds up old newspapers into perfect piles...
And - miracles! - she slowly becomes Japanese.
Her creamy British complexion turns a ghastly white.
Her wide, laughing mouth becomes pouty.
Her merry eyes become sad and mysterious.
And she can do amazing things with a big ball of yarn.
And on the evening of January 1st she rips open some supermarket packages and does amazing things with some chicken stock, seaweed and rice cake.
That looks lovely!
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