The Home Drama
Terauchi Kantaro Ikka (1974) did little more than film the dinner table of a stonemason's family. Average rating 31.3%. A family gathered in front of the television to watch a family inside the television — this band is the cha-no-ma, the room in which Japan watched, held up as a mirror to itself.
The scripts were by Kuniko Mukoda. That name returns to this map forty years later, as the name of a prize given to television drama scripts themselves (→ The Age of the Screenwriter). One of the sources of Japan becoming a country where people watch dramas by the screenwriter's name was at this dinner table. The director was Teruhiko Kuze. On a set where the actors really did throw themselves about, a story survives that Asei Kobayashi was thrown by Hideki Saijo and broke his right arm.
This band also carries the kind of misremembering this map often meets: the image of a low table being flipped over every week. Looking into it, the only scene clearly confirmable in the sources is from a special made in 2000, and no record was reached showing how many times it happened in the 1974 serial. That is not a refutation. As this map, I will simply write honestly that the frequency could not be confirmed. Ittetsu Hoshi in Kyojin no Hoshi (Star of the Giants) is likewise said to have actually flipped the table only once. A strong single scene seems to multiply its own count in memory.
And a record of length. Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari ran as a serial from 1990 to 2011, and including the specials until 2019 — 511 episodes in all. Sugako Hashida wrote them alone. Someone kept making time in which a family only argues, for close to thirty years.