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Toshiba Sunday Theater: Owari no Ichinichi
- No.
- ST-00283
- Year
- 1975
- Broadcated
/Created by - ＴＢＳ系/北海道放送
- Scriptwriter
- Yamada Taichi
- Format
- one-off drama
- Awards
- Script published in Monthly Drama
- Overview
- A woman who has worked as a junior high school teacher in the town of Mashike, Hokkaido for 32 years gets on the wrong side of the principal and is forced to retire. She feels humiliated that she has to go around filling other’s glasses at her farewell party, despite the fact that she is the one being sent off. Late that night, this lonely woman receives a visit from one of her former students who admires her. She reveals to him how she has been living an uncomfortable, restrained life in this small rural town. As the night goes on, she reveals the terrible grief she felt when visiting Attu Island to console the spirit of her husband who died in the war: “I didn’t know whose bones, whose shoes, whose rice bowls they were, but I put my hands together and prayed and cried, believing that they all belonged to my husband.” She then begins singing a military song in the middle of the street as if she had gone insane. Once the morning comes, she goes to a now-abandoned house, which used to be her husband’s family home where she used to live, and recalls those memories with a tender smile. In a letter to the production team, Tanie Kitabayashi, the star actress, spoke very highly of Taichi Yamada’s script, saying that it is rare to come across such concise, sophisticated lines and phrases on TV, and that it is this elimination of sentimentality that creates a deep feeling of sorrow.
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