Item: Chuushingura Sono Gi Sono Ai
Language: en-US
Type of Problem: Incorrect_content
Extra Details: This should be a multi-part "TV" show, not a ~7h long "Movie".
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Reply by Mikedeth
on February 8, 2022 at 9:28 AM
Hi @TurtleWilly Thanks for your report
Interesting case. I don't see any episode section in that website though. The Japanese Wikipedia claims it aired on January 2nd from 16:00 to 22:54. If that information is correct then this entry should stay as it is.
Reply by TurtleWilly
on February 8, 2022 at 2:19 PM
It is surprisingly tricky to find reliable information about this drama on the web, but if you look here: https://www.bs-tvtokyo.co.jp/official/chushingura_sonogisonoai/ and scroll down a bit to the "バックナンバー" (back number) section then it's clearly 7 different episodes once it got a rerun on their secondary channels. They just dropped all episodes in one go during the initial broadcast.
It's like Netflix dropping all episodes of some of their shows on a single day for binge watching. That doesn't make those singular movies either. :)
Reply by Mikedeth
on March 6, 2022 at 5:05 AM
Hi again. Sorry for the late reply.
That's the problem. Those are from the rerun. Per our guidelines we should follow the original broadcast, regardless of the intended 7 episodes division. If this was aired all in one day as a whole, then it should remain in the movie page. Don't think we can extrapolate this case to streaming platforms since those make a clear episode division when they drop, looking at the web archive it looks like this split wasn't made until the 2018 rerun.
Reply by TurtleWilly
on March 6, 2022 at 3:17 PM
How do you know the original broadcast didn't had perfectly fine segmented episodes, and even CM blocks between? It certainly wasn't broadcast as a single block. Since the show's own homepage doesn't have the information I sadly have no other way to prove this to you. If their official secondary channel isn't good enough as prove… what else can I do? So, lets have that singular 7 hour+ movie, even if that makes no sense.