Movielogr
The Dawn of Asia (1964)
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Overview
The Dawn of Asia (アジアの曙) is 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.
Length 687 minutes
Actors
Kei Satō | Rokkô Toura | Akiko Koyama | Shinsuke Mikimoto | Noriko Matsumoto | Hôsei Komatsu | Hideo Kanze | Mari Yoshimura