Miniseries · CBC
Ordinary Love
Why would he date someone 12 years older, and of the same sex as me?
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Ordinary Love actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Ordinary Love reads strongest on Serialized, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
Fumihara Ichiro and Higashi Kei are colleagues whose relationship began through a shared love of movies. While Kei admires Ichiro as both a mentor and a supervisor, neither expects their growing bond to develop into something more.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Direction
- Yuho IshibashiDirector
- Kensuke TsukudaDirector
Where to watch
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