Digital Script ArchivesDetail
Kemono no Yukue
- No.
- ST-00012
- Year
- 1957
- Broadcated
/Created by - ＮＨＫ
- Scriptwriter
- Miyoshi Juro
- Format
- one-off drama
- Awards
- ACA National Arts Festival Encouragement Award (Direction)
- Overview
- This suspense TV drama won the 12th ACA National Arts Festival Encouragement Award. The protagonist is Tetsuo Toda (Mikijiro Hira), a quiet youth nicknamed Guzutetsu, or sleazeball Tetsu. A year earlier, his older brother died under mysterious circumstances after he took the blame and was arrested for bribery committed by his superior. On the first anniversary of his brother’s death, Tetsuo opens a diary left by his brother and finds a strange entry saying, “These three are the ones who killed me.” This transforms Tetsuo’s personality; burning with revenge, he purchases multiple knives and visits the men identified in the diary. Won the 12th ACA National Arts Festival Encouragement Award. Created by Juro Miyoshi, a novelist and playwright who was active through the 1930s to 1950s. Directed by Shigenobu Umemoto. The cast included Mikijiro Hira, Keisuke Sonoi, Ayako Iwasaki, and Naoki Sugiura. The leading actor, Mikijiro Hira, joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company’s training school in 1953 and then the Haiyuza Theatre Company in 1956. The following year, he won the leading role in Kemono no Yukue in an audition.
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