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Saturday Drama Taichi Yamada Series: Otokotachi no Tabiji, Season 3, Episode 1 “Shiruba Shito”
- No.
- ST-00196
- Year
- 1977
- Broadcated
/Created by - ＮＨＫ
- Scriptwriter
- Yamada Taichi
- Format
- drama seriese
- Awards
- ACA National Arts Festival Grand Prize
- Overview
- Yohei Sugimoto and Etsuko Shimazu, two young members of a security company, get to know some elderly people living in an old folks’ home, following a security-related event. One day, however, those elderly people suddenly hijack a Tokyo Toden tram. Deputy Chief Yoshioka rushes to the scene. There, the hijackers spew out the loneliness and resentment of aging, claiming that they have been “abandoned” and “treated as a burden” in spite of all the hardships they have been through and everything they have done for society. In response, Yoshioka persuades them to stop: “All this does is tarnish your admirable past.” He expresses his determination for his own retirement age: “I’m ready for what’s to come two decades from now. The least I can say is I won’t do something like this.” After these words, he remains silent throughout. The episode asks a penetrating question ahead of its time to a rapidly aging society, through the many emotions of the elderly hijackers and Yoshioka’s silence.
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