First Time Affair (1983)

Seiko Matsuda's first starring role in a TV drama, adapted from the novel Father by Shusaku Endo. As well as the title, the film attracts great attention for Seiko's bewitching transformation from a young girl to an adult! The heroine, who lives for her job as a sports club instructor, falls in love with a businessman with a wife and child. But her father wants his daughter to have an ordinary but happy marriage and a peaceful family... This drama explores the conflict between a daughter who wants to keep her love alive and her father, as well as the nature of love. Hiroshi Katsuno plays Seiko's adulterous partner, and Keiki Kobayashi plays Kikuji, the father who wishes for ordinary happiness as a woman.