| Author | Toyoko Yamasaki |
|---|---|
| Title orig | 不毛地帯 |
| Orig lang code | ja |
| Translator | James T. Araki |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Pub date | 1973–78 |
| English pub date | 1985 |
| Published | University of Hawaii Press |
The Barren Zone (不毛地帯, Fumō chitai) is a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It was serialized in the weekly magazine Sunday Mainichi from 1973 to 1978.
The novel was partially adapted into a film starring Tatsuya Nakadai and directed by Satsuo Yamamoto in 1976. It was later adapted into two television miniseries in 1979 and 2009.
Synopsis
Tadashi Iki is captured during the invasion of Manchuria and returns to Japan after being interned for over a decade in Soviet labor camps. Owing to his former position in the Imperial General Staff, he is offered a position at the expansive Kinki Corporation.
1976 film
| Director | Satsuo Yamamoto |
|---|---|
| Screenplay | Nobuo Yamada |
| Starring | Tatsuya Nakadai Isao Yamagata Kin'ya Kitaōji Tetsurō Tamba |
| Music | Masaru Sato |
| Studio | Geiensha |
| Distributor | Toho |
| Released | August 28, 1976 (Japan) |
| Runtime | 181 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Fumō Chitai (不毛地帯) is a 1976 Japanese film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto.[1]
Cast
- Tatsuya Nakadai - Tadashi Iki
- Tetsurō Tamba - Isao Kawamata
- Isao Yamagata - Ichizo Daimon
- Jūkei Fujioka - Army Chief General of Kwantung Army
- Kin'ya Kitaōji
- Takashi Yamaguchi
- Kaoru Yachigusa
- Shiho Fujimura
- Ichirō Nakatani
- Hisashi Igawa
- Eitaro Ozawa
- Etsushi Takahashi - Detective
- Jirō Tamiya - Tatsuzo Samejima
- Hideji Ōtaki - Seizo Hisamatsu
- Noboru Nakaya
Awards
- Won: Best Supporting Actor - Hideji Ōtaki
1979 TV series
| Starring | Mikijirō Hira |
|---|---|
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Num episodes | 31 |
| Channel | TBS |
| First aired | April 4, 1979 |
| Last aired | October 31, 1979 |
Cast
- Mikijirō Hira - Tadashi Iki
- Tomisaburo Wakayama - Ichizo Daimon
- Atsuo Nakamura - Tatsuzo Samejima
- Hideo Takamatsu - Tatsuya Satoi
- Kimiko Ikegami - Naoko Iki
- Takashi Shimura - Masaharu Tanigawa
- Kō Nishimura - Seizo Hisamatsu
- Tamao Nakamura
- Ayumi Ishida
- Ichirō Murakoshi - Narrator
2009 TV series
| Starring | Toshiaki Karasawa Koyuki Kenichi Endō Yutaka Takenouchi Yūki Amami Sadao Abe Kuranosuke Sasaki Toshirō Yanagiba Emi Wakui Isao Hashizume Ittoku Kishibe Yoshio Harada |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Issei Futamata |
| Composer | Yugo Kanno |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Num episodes | 19 |
| Channel | Fuji Television |
| First aired | March 11, 2009 |
| Last aired | October 15, 2009 |
Cast
- Toshiaki Karasawa - Tadashi Iki
- Yoshio Harada - Ichizo Daimon
- Kenichi Endō - Tatsuzo Samejima
- Ittoku Kishibe - Tatsuya Satoi
- Toshirō Yanagiba - Isao Kawamata
- Emi Wakui - Yoshiko Iki
- Koyuki - Chisato Akitsu
- Nicholas Pettas - Pratt
- Mikako Tabe - Naoko Iki
- Sheryar Khan - Oil Company Manager
- Yasunori Danta as Michio Kaizuka
- Issei Futamata - Narrator
References
- ^ "デジタル大辞泉プラス「不毛地帯」の解説". kotobank. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ^ "ja:報知映画賞ヒストリー" (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 2009-11-24. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
- ^ "Japan-movie" (in Japanese). japan-movie.net. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
External links
- Fumo Chitai at IMDb