Things You Can Know by Looking at Them(2020)

Things You Can Know by Looking at Them is a Japanese drama series that explores the collision of past and present in Tokyo's high-rise world. Momoko Uchida, a manga writer in her second marriage, lives a carefully constructed life in an expensive apartment building alongside her friend Mizuki. Her equilibrium shatters when a newlywed couple moves in—the bride is Rumi Kamoi, and the groom is Momoko's ex-husband, whom she divorced two decades earlier. As old connections resurface and unspoken histories emerge, the series examines how proximity forces characters to confront what they've left behind. With her son at university and a new marriage to navigate, Momoko must reckon with the unexpected return of someone she thought she'd moved past, unraveling the quiet complexities of adult relationships and the lives we build to escape our former selves.