Digital Script ArchivesDetail
Irohanihoheto
- No.
- ST-00024
- Year
- 1959
- Broadcated
/Created by - ＫＲＴ
- Scriptwriter
- Hashimoto Shinobu
- Format
- one-off drama
- Casts
- 松本刑事…伊藤雄之助、妻・満江…桜むつ子、妹・美沙…香川京子、母…飯田蝶子、天野理事長…芦田伸介、西垣理事…宮口精二、黒河理事…殿山泰司
- Awards
- ACA National Arts Festival Award
- Overview
- Irohanihoheto is a controversial work by Yoshihiko Okamoto and Shinobu Hashimoto, who respectively served as director and scriptwriter for Watashi wa Kai ni Naritai. It portrays political mistrust and the absurdity of human society based on the Hozenkeizai-Kai Incident, which caused a sensation in postwar Japanese society. It won the 14th ACA National Arts Festival Encouragement Award. Led by its chairman Ryuichi Amano, the Toshikeizai-Kai sleeping partnership carries out large-scale promotions on the media to gather funds from many ordinary folks, guaranteeing them a high dividend. It has become well known as “Japan’s only investment bank for the people.” Detective Muneharu Matsumoto of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Second Investigation Division has been secretly investigating the organization for fraud for a long time but has failed to obtain evidence of crime. Matsumoto’s investigation poses a threat to Amano, who then showers money on leading politicians to get the investment bank bill he wants passed as soon as possible. Hozenkeizai-Kai, which served as the model for Toshikeizai-Kai, experienced a standstill in business and was unable to make deposit payments in October 1953. In January the following year, Chairman Masutomi Ito was arrested, after which the partnership went bankrupt. The partnership had 150,000 members at its peak, and the investors lost approximately 4.4 billion yen in total.
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