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Hotaru no Hikari: It's Only A Little Light in My Life

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  • 2007-2011
  • 2 Seasons
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • Comedy, Drama
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It is said that many working women in their twenties are clandestinely, sloppy and lazy homebodies. At work, they put on a facade of living it up in glitz and glamour, but at home, they live as ultimate sexless slobs. Hotaru Amemiya (Haruka Ayase), who works in the interior design industry in Tokyo, is truly one such homebody. She would rather sleep than date and loves to dilly-dally at home, clad in a stained T-shirt and sweat pants, drinking beer while scratching her behind. But her comfy homebody life is threatened when one day, her boss, Takano (Naohito Fujiki), moves into her house out of the blue. Then, at work, an up-and-coming young designer, Makoto Teshima (Kazuki Kato) returns from London, and Hotaru's life takes a new turn. She falls in love. How will the homebody girl respond to Makoto's bold move? Will she remember how to be feminine again?

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Cast & Crew See All

Haruka Ayase
Amemiya Hotaru
Naohito Fujiki
Seiichi Takano
Yuka Itaya
Sachiko Yamada

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Episode 1

Kaettekita himonoonna

59 mins

Hotaru returns to Japan after three years on assignment in Hong Kong. She presumptuously returns to the house with her manager and has her suitcases delivered there. The manager has a surprise in store for her that reveals his feelings. Notwithstanding that, Hotaru is a 'himono onna' with no savings to her name so the plans have to be delayed. There are new faces and new feelings in the office. Then there is the woman the man was drinking with.

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