Double Kitchen

Details

Title: ダブル・キッチン
Title (English): Double Kitchen
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Family
Episodes: 11
Viewership: 22.3
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 1993-Apr-16 to 1993-Jun-25
Air time: Monday 21:00
Theme song: Dakara Honey by PRINCESS・PRINCESS
Related drama: Triple Kitchen (TBS, 2006)

Synopsis

Double Kitchen is a heartwarming situation comedy about a newlywed couple sharing a house with the husband's parents in a suburb of Tokyo. Ordinary situations become hilarious cross-generational battlegrounds, as the wife and her mother-in-law pursue vastly different images of the ideal family. --TBS

Cast

Yamaguchi Tomoko as Hanaoka Miyako
Takashima Masanobu as Hanaoka Kunoichi
Nogiwa Yoko as Hanaoka Machiko
Sakai Maki as Hanaoka Rumi
Sano Shiro as Terada Yunosuke
Yokoyama Megumi as Hanaoka Shizu
Ito Shiro as Hanaoka Keizo
Hosokawa Fumie as Kojima Sayoko
Hara Chisako (原知佐子) as Terada Toshiko
Ru Oshiba (ルー大柴) as Matsui Shuichi
Achiwa Satomi as Kuramoto Ayako
Akaza Miyoko as Tanimura Yaeko
Iwamoto Masuyo as Fujiwara Haruko
五十嵐光樹 as Saegusa Masaki

Production Credits

Screenwriter: Nishiogi Yumie, Matsubara Toshiharu
Director: Kimura Tatsuaki, Yoshida Akimi (吉田秋生), Isano Hideki, Kitagawa Masaichi (北川雅一)
Producer: Kijima Seiichiro, Kameyama Chihiro, Ueda Hiroki
Music: Kobayashi Takeshi (小林武史)

Episode Titles

Ep 01: 「嫁姑決戦は金曜日」 "Friday, The Deciding Match of Daughter-in-law vs. Mother-in-law"
Ep 02: 「葬式はダイハード」 "Terrible Funeral"
Ep 03: 「嫁vs姑　覚悟しいや」 "Bride vs Mother-in-law: Prepare Yourself"
Ep 04: 「地獄の家族旅行」"Family Vacation From Hell"
Ep 05: 「おやじ最後の日」"Dad's Last Day"
Ep 06: 「ダブル離婚の危機」"Double Divorce Crisis"
Ep 07: 「嫁姑ガマンの限界」"The Limit of My Patience Towards In-Laws"
Ep 08: 「優柔不断夫に天罰」"God's Punishment to Indecisive Husbands"
Ep 09: 「嫁姑おせち対決！」"In-Law New Year's Showdown!"
Ep 10: 「嵐を呼ぶ初孫誕生」"Stormy Birth of the First Grandchild"
Ep 11: 「今夜が最後！Ｗ鼓の乱打!!嫁姑涙の別れ」"Final Night! Thump of the W-Drum! Tearful Parting of In-laws!"

-- translated by awrittensin

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