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9.0 1 Seasons • 13 Episodes

The Dawn of Asia - Season 1

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.

Top Cast

  • Shinsuke Mikimoto

    Shinsuke Mikimoto

    Minetaro Nakayama

  • Akiko Koyama

    Akiko Koyama

    Yasuko Nakayama

  • Kei Satō

    Kei Satō

    Li Lie-jun

  • Rokkō Toura

    Rokkō Toura

    Zhou Yu-Xian

  • Noriko Matsumoto

    Noriko Matsumoto

    Yukiko Saeki

  • Hōsei Komatsu

    Hōsei Komatsu

    He Zi-qui

  • Hideo Kanze

    Hideo Kanze

    Chinese general

  • Mari Yoshimura

    Mari Yoshimura

    Yu-Rong

  • Sayuri Tachikawa

    Sayuri Tachikawa

    Ling-ling

Overview

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.

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