Kiri no Hi
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Kiri no Hi (霧の火) is a Japanese drama. Its original air date was August 25, 2008. Directed by Amemiya Nozomu, its screenplay was done by Takeyama Yo. It starred Ichihara Etsuko and Shiraishi Miho.
Summary
The story takes place in Maoka City, Karafuto, Japan (Currently Kholmsk, Sakhalin, Russian Federation) during the final year of the Pacific War. Nine Telephone Operators in Maoka took their own lives by taking Potassium cyanide when the Soviet Union invaded the defenseless city on August 20, 1945. This particular movie is based on this incident and is partially fictional (names of the characters, etc). Soviet Union's invasion of Karafuto is very sensitive topic and controversial in both Japan and Russia due to the border dispute between the two countries. Originally, a movie was created called Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon『樺太1945年夏 氷雪の門』which was filmed in 1974. This film portrayed the brutal invasion of Karafuto by the Soviet Army that claimed thousands of innocent Japanese citizens. The film focused on its accuracy by the witness of the invasion and vividly described the ruthless killings committed by the Soviet Army. However due to political pressure from by then, the Soviet Union, the Japanese government intervened and banned the movie to be aired and sold. Kiri no Hi caused less of political uproar from Russia due to the movie's insistence to be "fiction" and did not focus on Soviet Army's brutal actions but instead talked about wishing World Peace. At the end, the grand daughter of the survivor of the Soviet Invasion pointed at Sakhalin and said, "Grandma, look, it's Sakhalin" with big smile instead of calling the island its Japanese name of Karafuto which hints that the Japanese people are willing to move on with the past and go forward even though they were the victim of the Soviet Army. This movie was only aired on Television and had 11% Audience measurement.
Cast
- Ichihara Etsuko as Nakamura Mizue (age 82)
- Mayuko Fukuda as Mizue (age 15-19)
- Karina Nose as Inoue Aiko
- Miho Shiraishi as Misa Yamazaki
- Yui Ichikawa as Nakajima Sakura
- Risa Kudō as Yoshiko Inoue
- Shoko Fujimura as Eiko Sakai
- Ayaka Ikezawa as Akane Kawashima
- Natsuko as Tiyo Sato
- Sairi Itoh as Yoshiko Nakamura
- Riku Yasuda as Mizue's younger brother
- Natori Yuko
- Shibuya Asuka
- Sato Hitomi
- Ayumi Sakamoto
- Saori Hayashi
- Osamu Mukai
- Nakamura Shidō