Everyone has their all-time favourite drama series. Quite often it involves a classic storyline that contributes, albeit in a small way perhaps, to developing your outlook on life.
- Oshin through the ages
One of my top favourites is still the British satirical sitcom ‘Yes Minister‘. In the series, Sir Humphrey’s, at times baffling, but witty explanations for many a bureaucratic manoevure, provides valuable parameters to which politics and politicians can continue, in my opinion, to be viewed. I wonder what the writers of the series would have made of the global financial crisis and even the recent embarrassing debacle in the British parliament over politicians expenses.
My other all-time favourite drama is that of Oshin. A drama far removed from providing political lessons, but a drama, like that of Yes Minister, which was able to gain widespread international popularity through the development of strong and credible characters, confronting real issues through a compelling script.
Oshin was a drama that traced the journey of a young girl from the years 1907 to 1983. The drama portrayed Oshin as a hardworker who managed to escape from a very poor rural background after many years to achieve fame and success.
The result was a drama series that provided a wonderful insight into modern Japan and its people. For me, the value of watching Oshin was not just the lessons in Japanese culture and history, but also the ability to tune into the Japanese language. In this way, the series provided a fantastic learning opportunity.
Favourite dramas – Can we learn something from them?
In the first case, ‘Yes Minister’, the political banter and clever spin continues to encompass our lives and keep us on our toes. Let us hope, as a result of the series, that we are a little more aware of the many Humphrey Appleby moments!
In the second case, ‘Oshin’, the series has highlighted the importance of ones roots and the journey rather than the destination, but at the same time provided us with the inspiration to strive ever ‘onwards and upwards.’
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Ohayo Gozaimasu,
Found your blog from your post on Shibuya246. I mostly watch the british comedys Are You Being Served and others along that line. Those are played on our local pbs station here in Texas. But I also just finished watching the Jdrama GTO…Great Teacher Onizuka. I wish that type of program could be shown here in the states. The main character in that show proved what great lenghts what one person would do just to help his students achieve no matter what kind of trouble he would get into.
If they brought that kind of program over here the networks would ruin the whole concept of the story to fit the moral standards of the US.
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Ja mat ne
Good to hear from you re the dramas – yes I also enjoyed Are You Being Served?