The Dawn of Asia

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Shinsuke Mikimoto

Minetaro Nakayama

Akiko Koyama

Yasuko Nakayama

Kei Satō

Li Lie-jun

Rokkō Toura

Zhou Yu-Xian

Noriko Matsumoto

Yukiko Saeki

Hōsei Komatsu

He Zi-qui

Hideo Kanze

Chinese general

Mari Yoshimura

Yu-Rong

Sayuri Tachikawa

Ling-ling

Crew

Art

• Hatsuo Kojima Production Design
• Yasutarô Kon Production Design

Camera

• Makoto Hishida Director of Photography

Directing

• Nagisa Ōshima Director
• Naoki Katagiri Assistant Director

Editing

• Hiroshi Asai Editor

Production

• Masayuki Nakajima Producer
• Tatsuyoshi Shimamura Producer

Sound

• Ichiro Tsukasa Original Music Composer

Writing

• Minetaro Nakayama Novel
• Mamoru Sasaki Teleplay

Seasons & episodes