The Dawn of Asia

L’histoire

Résumé en anglais

A TV drama consisting of thirteen episodes about the trans-China/Japan collaboration of revolutionaries in the early twentieth century. It was Nagisa Oshima’s rare attempt to direct a TV drama in a social atmosphere in which Japan was embracing postwar prosperity as well as the effects of permeating mass media. Making an effort to reach out to the mass audience through a seemingly conventional method of filmic representation, Dawn of Asia takes up the epic of trans-Asiatic solidarity while challenging nationalism on both sides.

Distribution

S Shinsuke MikimotoMinetaro Nakayama A Akiko KoyamaYasuko Nakayama K Kei SatōLi Lie-jun R Rokkō TouraZhou Yu-Xian N Noriko MatsumotoYukiko Saeki H Hōsei KomatsuHe Zi-qui H Hideo KanzeChinese general M Mari YoshimuraYu-Rong S Sayuri TachikawaLing-ling