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.

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