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Just when about to commit suicide after being deserted by his bride-to-be during the wedding, a man meets a university professor who is also at the point of killing himself. A woman nearby intervenes, one thing leads to another, and the three lost souls move in together. Each episode is a distinct story about the sometimes painful, sometimes warm romances between them and the people they meet while sharing an apartment.
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1998-12-23
S1E11 — Episode 11: Love
Shafu dies, and Noa falls for a teacher who is already engaged. She hopes Noa will come for her on her wedding day, but he doesn't interrupt the ceremony. Instead, he releases balloons into the sky, symbolizing his love and letting her go to live her own life. Noa chooses to bless her happiness rather than selfishly take her away. The episode suggests that love is like a balloon—fragile yet colorful, floating with the wind, sometimes enduring life's rain and storms.
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Yutaka Takenouchi
Wataru Noa
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Professor Momose
Ken Tanaka
Hiroshi Mikami
Maki Sakai
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Hinano Yoshikawa
Chiaki Makino
Ryoko Hirosue
Yoshino Kimura
Keishi Hunt
Joey Wong
三岛美丽
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