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You know, I wish someone would come out and say it: Yuuzou is a miserable bastard. His family lives in terror of him, he makes them miserable, and his wife does nothing but apologize for him. He's supposed to be a Saint because he didn't beat up his daughter - but it's perfectly OK for him to closed-fist punch his 11 year-old son?
I really do like this show a lot, and this may well be a realistic portrait of working-class family life in Tokyo in 1964. But since the show - admirably, I guess - is very non-judgmental about what happens in it, that means I'm free to hate Yuuzou's guts.
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