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Taiga Drama: Sanga Moyu
- No.
- ST-00303
- Year
- 1984
- Broadcated
/Created by - ＮＨＫ
- Scriptwriter
- Ichikawa ShinIchi Katori Shunsuke
- Original author
- 山崎豊子
- Original name
- 二つの祖国
- Format
- drama seriese
- Awards
- First installment of Taiga drama set in the Showa era
- Overview
- The story is based on Toyoko Yamazaki’s novel Futatsu no Sokoku, which was serialized in Shukan Shincho from 1980. This first installment of Taiga drama is set in the modern period and portrays second-generation Japanese Americans who are caught up in the war between Japan and the US from the attack of Pearl Harbor to the Tokyo Trials. It is the third production of Taiga drama to revolve around a fictional character, the first two being Sanshimai and Shishi no Jidai. Kenji Amo is a second-generation Japanese American. He was educated in Japan up to university. He falls in love with Noriko, who he happens to meet when the February 26 incident occurs. Kenji’s younger brother, Tadashi, was educated in the US but is a Japanese patriot. When he comes to Japan to compete in the All-Japan Judo Championships as the Los Angeles representative, he decides to remain in Japan despite Kenji’s opposition. Noriko uses a fake marriage with Tadashi to go after Kenji who has been discriminated and deported to the US. However, the ship that she is on turns back to Japan on the way to the US due to outbreak of the Pacific War. Noriko and Kenji are therefore separated. Kenji volunteers to fight in the US Army, and Tadashi in the Japanese Army. The two confront each other in the battlefront in the Philippines. Tadashi is injured and taken captive. He hates his older brother, but the two later reconcile. Kenji serves as an interpreter in the Tokyo Trials but comes to have doubts about the trials.
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