Digital Script ArchivesDetail
Mitsuyaku
- No.
- ST-00206
- Year
- 1978
- Broadcated
/Created by - テレビ朝日
- Scriptwriter
- Hasegawa Kimiyuki
- Original author
- 澤地久枝
- Original name
- 密約
- Format
- one-off drama
- Casts
- 石山太一…北村和夫、久我原和孝…磯部勉、馬場部長…永井智雄、筈見絹子…吉行和子、辰郎…堺佐千夫、松川審議官…滝田裕介、中田弁護士…稲葉義男、立川弁護士…本郷淳、沢井久代…大空真弓
- Awards
- TV Drama Masterpiece
- Overview
- It is a classic socio-political TV drama that documents the Nishiyama Incident, in which a top-secret agreement made between the Japanese and US governments following the Okinawa Reversion Agreement of 1971 was leaked to the media. Won the Excellence Award in the TV Awards. Based on a book by documentary writer Hisae Sawachi, the show depicts the outcome of the incident from the perspectives of three people: a newspaper journalist, a female official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Hisae Sawachi. Through their perspectives, the show raises many questions about topics that are relevant even today, such as the people’s right to know, the nature of journalism, and the tyrannical exercise of power. In 1971, a newspaper journalist Ishiyama is on the hunt for a scoop concerning a secret agreement stating that the Japanese government will take on the land restoration costs owed by the US government to land owners. Ishiyama successfully obtains secret information by establishing a relationship with Kinuko, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, Ishiyama and Kinuko are later arrested for violating the National Public Service Act and put to trial. Hisae Sawachi develops an interest in this case and interviews those who were involved... TV drama Mitsuyaku was created in 1978 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi. It received high acclaim and was released as a film in 1988. The film was selected as an invited film for the 1989 Moscow International Film Festival. A revival screening was held in 2010.
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