In episode 2, Shizuko gets some alarming news from the doctor. Not knowing how long she has to live, she writes a letter to Gozo Daimaru, and sends Shinobu and Taeko to hand-deliver it to his mansion in Tokyo. Disturbed by recent events, Chizuko decides to cut her vacation in Manazuru short, and she and Masato return to the mansion as well. Gozo shows Chizuko the only photo he kept of about her mother Keiko, and we learn more about her in flashbacks. Michio decides to give up his promising trumpeting career to re-join the Migrating Birds Gang, with the mission of bringing a fight to Gozo and the Daimaru Corporation. Shizuko tracks down her ne'er do well husband Ryusaku and tries to get him to come with her to confess to Gozo, but Ryusaku has other plans...

And we're also releasing a revised version of episode 1. No major changes, just a few spelling and wording tweaks.

This series is a joint project with the fine folks over at The Skaro Hunting Society, who sub a bunch of old drama and even older anime. Go check them out!

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April 13, 1967 was a fateful night, when both Shinobu Mastumoto and Chizuko Daimaru were born under the same mysterious star. Their family backgrounds couldn't have been more different. Chizuko was born into a family of power and wealth, and her mother died during childbirth. Shinobu's family was poor, and her father abandoned the family and became a petty criminal, drifting in and out of jail for years. But despite their differences, Shinobu and Chizuko share a common destiny, intertwined by a secret that could end up tearing both families apart.

Chikyodai (commonly known in English as "Stepsisters") is one of those wonderfully over the top 1980s J-Dramas produced by Daiei TV. The first episode starts out somewhat slowly with a lot of exposition, but this show doesn't take very long to get just as bonkers as any of the other Daiei dramas. It even features a moody biker gang leader who expresses his rage through jazz trumpeting, and a theme song that's a cover (with very different Japanese lyrics) of the cheesy 1980s bubblegum pop-metal classic "Runaway" by Bon Jovi!

This series is adapted from the 1934 Nobuko Yoshiya novel "This Road, That Road". The novel also had a 1936 movie adaptation directed by Yasushi Sasaki, and a 2005 Fuji TV drama titled "A Winter Round Dance".

This series is a joint project with the fine folks over at The Skaro Hunting Society, who sub a bunch of old drama and even older anime. Go check them out!

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