Digital Script ArchivesDetail
Fuyu no Hana, Yuko
- No.
- ST-00160
- Year
- 1974
- Broadcated
/Created by - NET
- Scriptwriter
- Yagi Shuichiro
- Original author
- 植草圭之助
- Original name
- 冬の花 悠子
- Format
- one-off drama
- Casts
- 仁科悠子…若尾文子、植草圭之助…石坂浩二、大沢…中尾彬、源吉(妓夫太郎)…平田守、おしげ(遣手)…菅井きん、お柳(新造)…小野敦子、春枝(お豆)…永野裕紀子、浮舟(花魁)…稲垣美穂子、春駒(花魁)…吉行和子、緑(花魁)…猪又光世、九重(花魁)…山本与志恵、西尾(番頭)井上昭文、杉村春子…本山可久子、長岡輝子…神保共子、三津田健…菅野昭彦、中村伸郎…小林勝也
- Awards
- TV Drama Masterpiece / Excellence Award in the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association Awards
- Overview
- It is an eight-episode TV series that aired on Pola Meisaku Gekijyo. Won the Best Award in the JBA Awards. The series is based on an autobiographic novel by Keinosuke Uekusa, who was nominated for the Naoki Prize. Written by Shuichiro Yagi and directed by Kohei Hisano. Revolving around Keinosuke, a poor youth who is a theatrical performer, and a female prostitute called Murasaki, the series portrays their dedicated and earnest way of life and the tragic end to their love. Their tragic fate brings tears to the audience. The year is 1941, and Tokyo is filled with a strange atmosphere with the onset of the war with America. In Tokyo’s Yoshihara red-light district, Keinosuke spends a night with a prostitute who calls herself Murasaki. Keinosuke falls in love with Murasaki, whose real name is Yuko. Learning that she wants to get out of the red-light business, Keinosuke does whatever he can to help her. Keinosuke leaves Yuko in the care of the Salvation Army and successfully makes preparations to settle her debts... In the series, Keinosuke and Yuko are played by Koji Ishizaka and Ayako Wakao, respectively. In a remake—again written by Shuichiro Yagi and directed by Kohei Hisano—that aired in 1990 as a TV special commemorating the 45th anniversary of the end of the war, Masaki Kanda plays Keinosuke and Yukiyo Toake plays Yuko.
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