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Special Drama: Fuyugamae
- No.
- ST-00306
- Year
- 1985
- Broadcated
/Created by - ＮＨＫ
- Scriptwriter
- Yamada Taichi
- Format
- one-off drama
- Awards
- TV Drama Masterpiece
- Overview
- Now an old man, Keisaku Okada (Chishu Ryu) goes on a solitary journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn to think about how to conclude his life. He meets a young couple working at a hotel, an old woman traveling alone, and an old colleague who is now bed ridden. At every encounter, he ruminates over how he can leave this world as a nice old man. However, this is easier said than done. As the old woman traveling alone (whom Keisaku invited to a soba restaurant) put it, “Being a nice old person is not easy.” He walks around in search for a place to die, but he hesitates every time. In the end of the journey, Keisaku stops by at the parents’ house of a fellow traveler, the young man who was traveling with his girlfriend. There, the young man’s grandfather sympathizes with Keisaku: “They say ‘living is what counts,’ but that isn’t the case,” to which Keisaku responds with a smile: “Indeed, but dying isn’t easy either.” Chishu Ryu masterfully expresses the emotional conflict involved in what is now known as shukatsu (end-of-life planning), speaking in a mumbling manner with his back straight and then quietly smiling. The aura he exudes brings a deep beauty to what is now known as shukatsu.
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