The Dawn of Asia

(1964)

★ 9 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1964

Country: Japan

Director: 大島渚

Cast: 御木本伸介, 小山明子, 佐藤慶, 戸浦六宏, Noriko Matsumoto, 小松方正, 観世栄夫, 芳村真理, 松川純子

Plot

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.