TV Show Details
Air Date:December 9th, 1964
Last Air Date:March 13th, 1965
Network:JNN
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama
Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:International Television Films, TBS, Sozosha
The Dawn of Asia (1964-1965)
JNN
Scripted
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.