魔女の条件 (forbidden love)

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魔女の条件 is a Japanese drama in 11 episodes from 1999.

Michi is a teacher in high school. She always tries to keep the appearance and to be perfect either for her parents, her fiance she doesn't love, her colleagues or her students. Until Hikaru is transferred to her school and she falls in love with him. She first starts to resist her feeling before making their relationship the most important things she has. But a teacher being in love with her 17 years old student is not authorized by society's rules.

Casting :
松嶋菜々子 as Hirose Michi
滝沢秀明 as Kurosawa Hikaru
黒木瞳 as Kurosawa Kyoko (Hikaru's mother)
別所哲也 as Kitai Masaru (Michi's fiance)
西田尚美 as Uda Kiriko (Michi's best friend)
山田麻衣子 as Kinoshita Jun (Michi's student)
白川由美 as Hirose Motoko (Michi's mother)
辻萬長 as Hirose Kenichi (Michi's father)
山口祐一郎 as Godai Yu (Kyoko's lover)
田山涼成 as Okajima Sensei (Ryousei High School Director)
温水洋一 as Matsuoka Sensei (History Teacher)

I like how Michi learn to do things for herself when she meets Hikaru instead of always following the rules that other people have made for her. I like how she decide to rebel and to never give up. I also thing that a lot of characters have a really crazy behavior. Especially Masaru who can't seems to give up no matter what she does and Kyoko who seems in love with her son. One of my favorite character is Michi's mother, she always seems to know everything that other people feel, probably because she gave up a lot an regret it.
I also like the music in this drama, I also have the OST.

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Japan : Trip to 日光市, part 4 : temples and end

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At the end of the morning and during the all afternoon, we went to the temples again. The price to visit all of them is cheaper than to visit only the main one even if the main one is included in the ticket. So that was pretty cool. After few research I discover that the Rinnoji which is the most important temple in Nikko was founded in the 8th century by Shodo Shonin who built the first temple Shihonryuji near the Shinkyo Sacred Bridge in 766 introducing at the same time Buddhism in Nikko. One of the shrine 日光東照宮 is also the tomb of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu who founded the Tokugawa shogunate after the Battle of Sekihagara during the Edo period (1603 - 1868).

After the temple we took the train back to Tokyo.

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Sources : 日光東照宮,  Nikko tourist association, Japan guide 

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Japan : Trip to 日光市, part 3 : park

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After the water fall, we went to the temples but it was not enough time to actually visit them so we decided to go back the next day. That night, we stayed at a youth hostel which was an old supermarket. One more weird place to add to the list of weird places I slept in. In the morning we went to the park nearby, there was a nice little river there and some of the trees were blooming, here are some pictures.

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Japan : Trip to 日光市, part 2 water fall

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We got down to the mountain using the chair lift again, that was much fun actually and I was happy not to have to walk. We took the bus a stopped on the way to see the water fall. It was far away and hidden by trees but it still looked pretty nice.
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