Digital Script ArchivesDetail
Manmosu Tawa
- No.
- ST-00016
- Year
- 1958
- Broadcated
/Created by - ＫＲＴ
- Scriptwriter
- Shirasaka Yoshio
- Format
- one-off drama
- Awards
- ACA National Arts Festival Encouragement Award (Screenplay)
- Overview
- This 80-minute live TV drama aired on an extended Toshiba Sunday Theater. In the early days, TV drama shows were not yet sophisticated both technologically and content wise; they were jokingly referred to as “electric picture-story shows.” But the script by former film screenwriter Yoshio Shirasaka that depicted the struggle between television and film—between old and new media—in a multi-POV story won the 13th ACA National Arts Festival Encouragement Award. Manmosu Tawa was rated highly as comparing with a film. While construction of the Tokyo Tower is underway, most of the board members at a film company do not consider the emerging television industry as a threat. However, Kuroki, the general manager of production, is having doubts about this outdated production policy. Kuroki had his eye on an up-and-coming actress in the company. However, she gets fed up of her supporting role within the film industry and becomes a personality exclusively affiliated with a TV station. While talents were leaving the film industry, TV stations were in high spirits to catch up to, and overtake, film companies, creating their own institutes for training talent. Feeling secure with their stable revenue, the film companies did not see television as a threat and failed to foresee the coming era of television.
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