The Dawn of Asia

A TV drama consisting of thirteen episodes about the trans-China/Japan collaboration of revolutionaries in the early twentieth century. It was Nagisa Oshima’s rare attempt to direct a TV drama in a social atmosphere in which Japan was embracing postwar prosperity as well as the effects of permeating mass media. Making an effort to reach out to the mass audience through a seemingly conventional method of filmic representation, Dawn of Asia takes up the epic of trans-Asiatic solidarity while challenging nationalism on both sides.

Images

Cast

Shinsuke Mikimoto

Minetaro Nakayama

Akiko Koyama

Yasuko Nakayama

Kei Satō

Li Lie-jun

Rokkō Toura

Zhou Yu-Xian

Noriko Matsumoto

Yukiko Saeki

Hōsei Komatsu

He Zi-qui

Hideo Kanze

Chinese general

Mari Yoshimura

Yu-Rong

Sayuri Tachikawa

Ling-ling

Related

SkyMed

20226.7out of 10

Offspring

20106.9out of 10

Ambitions

20197.3out of 10

Bel-Air

20227.7out of 10

Unchosen

20266.7out of 10

North of 60

19926.0out of 10

Julia

20227.3out of 10

Life on Top

20097.0out of 10

JOKER GAME

20166.7out of 10

Wu-Tang: An American Saga

20198.2out of 10

Expats

20246.7out of 10

X Company

20157.4out of 10

Fantasy Island

20215.9out of 10

Tip Toe

20266.8out of 10

Tyler Perry's Ruthless

20208.5out of 10

Light as a Feather

20187.6out of 10