Digital Script ArchivesDetail
Sarusuberi no Hana
- No.
- ST-00099
- Year
- 1967
- Broadcated
/Created by - 日本テレビ系/広島テレビ
- Scriptwriter
- Matsuyama Zenzo
- Format
- one-off drama
- Awards
- ACA National Arts Festival Encouragement Award
- Overview
- Won the 22nd ACA National Arts Festival Encouragement Award. At the time, people said that local TV stations could not create TV series, but Hiroshima Television challenged this widely held notion. Inspired by the poem “Umashimenkana” published in 1946—the following year of the atomic bomb drop—by Sadako Kurihara, a poet living in Hiroshima, the series depicts the hardships of a mother, who lost her husband and three children, and her daughter, who she gave birth to on the day of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yae and her daughter Beniko live in Hiroshima. Beniko has a boyfriend who proposes to her. She learns that a woman who is an atomic bombing survivor had a miscarriage and becomes worried that she may not be able to have children even if she marries him. Beniko was born the night the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima. After much anguish, Beniko runs away from home. But as her mother taught her the preciousness of life, she goes back to her boyfriend... Hiroshima Television offered the leading role to Haruko Sugimura, a famous actress from Hiroshima. However, as Sugimura seemed to have concerns about a local station creating a TV series for the first time, she was reluctant to accept the offer. To persuade her, Hiroshima Television showed her a documentary they had previously created, Ningen Sono Takumashiki Mono, after which Sugimura accepted the offer straight away.
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