Love and the Grand Tug-of-war

Love and the Grand Tug-of-war (2020)

DramaRomance

Following the 2009 financial crash, Waseda University graduate Takeshi lost his job in Tokyo and retreated to his family home in Sendai. While he resumed his role as heir to the family construction company with a diligent attitude, his hidebound father resents that his son left and that at the age of 35 Takeshi is still single. However, wider events will force father and son to overcome their differences as the Otsunahiki, a great tug-of-war featuring thousands of participants, will pull them together in a family tradition just as Takeshi meets Jiheyun, a beautiful Korean doctor on an exchange programme... The ties of family bind people tightly as characters struggle with the push of their own ambitious urges and the pull of family commitments but the Otsunahiki ropes things together in a family drama rich with events and the culture of Sendai, that will tug and the heartstrings of viewers whilst providing to the desire to visit the beautiful and storied region.

Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe
Writer: Takashi Shinohara

Casts

	Takahiro Miura as Takeshi
	Kang Ji-young as Yeo Ji-hyun
	Manami Higa as
	Ikki Sawamura as
	Mako Ishino as
	Seishiro Nishida as
	Yuichi Nakamura as
	Wakana Matsumoto as
	Mayumi Asaka as
	Takeshi Masu as
	Norihito Kaneko as
	Yuta Kanai as
	Mitsunori Isaki as
	Megumi Abe as
	Hitomi Tsukikage as
	Ichirō Ogura as
	Toshiaki Megumi as

Crew