The Dawn of Asia (1964)

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.

Released Dec. 9, 1964 55 min Episode 55 min None+

Genres: Drama

Production Companies: TBS, International Television Films, Inc., Sozosha

Network: JNN

Country: Japan
Production Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese