That’s an other Jdrama with a heavy theme that I enjoyed a lot that aired this year.

A House on the Slope (Saka no Tochu no Ie)

Yamazaki Risako, a housewife, becomes a jury member for the case of a mother accused of killing her baby. During the trial, she will listen to testimonies from the defendant’s family and think about what led the mother to commit such a crime. Unlike what her first thoughts to this case, she begins to sympathize with the defendant and question herself, her child education and her entourage’s influence on her child rearing method. We also see how other women who are part of the jury deal with their status as wife and/or as mother and the thoughts provoked by the case. It’s handled in a way that doesn’t give a one-dimensional characterization. For each testimony, we get the person who testifies and the defendant’s version. It shows how different perceive the same situations. Therefore, there’s a balance between everything we’re exposed to. Even jury members with their life aren’t told to be right or wrong and reconsider what they were always told or expected to be. I don’t know if a lot of people will like this theme as it’s a hard one to watch (like Children of Nobody) but well handled and thought provoking.