The Dawn of Asia (アジアの曙) is 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.
Genre: Drama, History, TV Movie
Stars: Kei Satō, Rokkō Toura, Akiko Koyama, Shinsuke Mikimoto, Noriko Matsumoto, Hōsei Komatsu
Crew: Nagisa Ōshima (Director), Mamoru Sasaki (Screenplay), Tsutomu Tamura (Screenplay)
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Language: 日本語
Studio: Sozosha, TBS, International Television Films, Inc.
Runtime: 687 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 19, 1964
IMDb: 10
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