Digital Script ArchivesDetail
Tsuiseki
- No.
- ST-00001
- Year
- 1955
- Broadcated
/Created by - ＮＨＫ
- Scriptwriter
- Uchimura Naoya
- Format
- one-off drama
- Awards
- ACA National Arts Festival Award
- Overview
- The story revolves around the pursuit of members of a smuggler gang that is active in Tokyo and Osaka. It is a live TV series made up of footage taken at four locations: a studio and Tsukishima Wharf in Tokyo, and a studio and Dotonbori Tazaemon Bridge in Osaka. The shooting involved 11 TV cameras, 26 microphones, and 300 staff members including the cast. Airing in the second year of television broadcasting in Japan, the series pushed the boundaries of television by leveraging cutting-edge technology at the time. Taking advantage of a key feature of television; i.e., immediacy, the series aimed at, and masterfully succeeded in, presenting a world of TV drama that was different from film or theater. It became the first TV program to win an award in the ACA National Arts Festival. Naoya Uchimura wrote the screenplay. The cast included Hiroshi Nihonyanagi, Mieko Hirooka, Shinsuke Ashida, and Hiroshi Koizumi for Tokyo, and Seishiro Hara, Yoshitaka Kusunoki, Chizuru Kitagawa, and Shozo Fukuyama for Osaka. Hiroshi Nagayama served as the director for Tokyo and Yuji Koizumi for Osaka.
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