The Barren Zone
 First tankōbon volume cover | |
| Author | Toyoko Yamasaki |
|---|---|
| Original title | 不毛地帯 |
| Translator | James T. Araki |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Publication date | 1973–78 |
Published in English | 1985 |
The Barren Zone (Japanese: 不毛地帯, Hepburn: Fumō chitai) is a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It was serialized in the weekly magazine Sunday Manichi 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[edit]
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[edit]
| Fumō Chitai | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Satsuo Yamamoto |
| Screenplay by | Nobuo Yamada |
| Starring | Tatsuya Nakadai Isao Yamagata Kin'ya Kitaōji Tetsurō Tamba |
| Music by | Sato Masaru |
Production company | Geiensha |
| Distributed by | Toho |
Release date |
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Running time | 181 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Fumō Chitai (不毛地帯) is a 1976 Japanese film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto.[1]
Cast[edit]
- 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
Awards[edit]
- Won: Best Supporting Actor - Hideji Ōtaki
1979 TV series[edit]
| The Barren Zone | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Mikijirō Hira |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 31 |
| Original release | |
| Network | TBS |
| Release | April 4 – October 31, 1979 |
Cast[edit]
- 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[edit]
| The Barren Zone | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Toshiaki Karasawa Koyuki Kenichi Endō Yutaka Takenouchi Yūki Amami Sadao Abe Kuranosuke Sasaki Toshirō Yanagiba Emi Wakui Isao Hashizume Ittoku Kishibe Yoshio Harada |
| Narrated by | Issei Futamata |
| Composer | Yugo Kanno |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 19 |
| Original release | |
| Network | Fuji Television |
| Release | March 11 – October 15, 2009 |
Cast[edit]
- 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
- Issei Futamata - Narrator
References[edit]
- ^ a b "デジタル大辞泉プラス「不毛地帯」の解説". kotobank. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ^ 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" 31 1976年 (in Japanese). japan-movie.net. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
External links[edit]
- Fumo Chitai at IMDb
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