Season 1 – Asura

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Twila P @Twi125 Jun 11, 2026 I give it a 7/10. Its watchable but not an amazing series. It is a slow-moving series , 7 episodes. See more Ron G @RT48342791 Jun 21, 2025 First. I saw the english overdubbed version. So right away you lose the inflections and acting that goes along with the original voices. After that is is a slow dysfunctional family drama that moves so slowly you want to give up. If you just want to watch something about people living their everyday lives, saying everyday things. Then this is for you. Its equivalent to watching a mediocre reality TV show See more Clara T @RT88608422 May 12, 2025 A hidden gem. Thank you Netflix Japan for always saving my year subscription 🙏 See more Karen L @RT71438520 Feb 15, 2025 The best series I've seen all year. Very insightful and refreshing. A wonderful view of Japenese culture, especially the food. See more Paukl S @RT90953827 Feb 9, 2025 Apart from the flawless performances of the cast - from the sisters, their parents and their partners - all the minor roles are cast and perform with conviction. However, strangely, neither professional reviewers nor public ones identify the central role that food and tea - and their sharing - play symbolically and practically not just in every episode but in almost every key scene. I can think of no other movie (nor culture) where food and drinks play such a fascinating and prominent symbolic and illustrative commentary on social mores). In addition the series offers a powerful critique of a male dominated society in which women and men (albeit in apparently opposite ways) are victims of restrictive and constraining gendered conventions that isolate and separate them each from the other - “like flies in aspic” From beginning to end there is a wonderful restrained depth to this movie and it will stay with me for a very long time - not least, perhaps’ because there is no forced conclusion - neither a conventional Hollywood happy ending nor a dark and superficial dramatic intervention of a malign deus ex machina. The characters will live on in my mind and my heart forever struggling with the tangled complexities that make the “meeting of true minds” an almost and sad impossibility as we live out each of our lives in an unfulfilled and ultimately unfulfilling solipsistic universe. Pablo See more Louise L @RT70793021 Jan 23, 2025 This is an absorbing story that brings you right into the intimacy of family life. See more Read all reviews

Asura — Season 1

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