Kiri no Hi

Kiri no Hi (霧の火) is a Japanese television drama which originally aired on Nippon Television (NTV) on August 25, 2008. Directed by Nozomu Amamiya and with a screenplay by Yō Takeyama, it starred Etsuko Ichihara and Karina Nose.[1] The production won a TV Drama Award at the 2008 Festival of the Arts of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁芸術祭).[2]

Kiri no Hi
GenreDrama
Written byYō Takeyama
Directed byNozomu Amamiya
StarringKarina Nose
Etsuko Ichihara
Miho Shiraishi
Yui Ichikawa
Risa Kudō
Osamu Mukai
Theme music composerTakeshi Umōda
Country of originJapan
Original language(s)Japanese
Production
Running time138 minutes
Release
Original networkNippon Television
Original release
  • August 25, 2008 (2008-08-25)

Plot

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 city on August 20, 1945.[3] The TV drama is based on this incident and is partially fictional (names of the characters, etc.).

Cast

Background

The Soviet Union's occupation of Karafuto is a very sensitive topic and controversial in both Russia and Japan due to the previous border dispute between the two countries. A 1974 movie titled Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon (樺太1945年夏 氷雪の門) portrayed the event as an invasion by the Red Army that claimed the lives of thousands. However, due to political pressure from the Soviet Union, the Japanese government intervened and banned the movie from being aired and sold.

Kiri no Hi caused less political uproar from Russia due to the movie's insistence as "fiction" and it did not focus on the Red Army's brutal actions but instead talked about world peace. At the end, the granddaughter of the survivor of the Soviet offensive pointed at Sakhalin and said, "Grandma, look, it's Sakhalin", with a big smile, instead of calling the island by its Japanese name of Karafuto, which hinted that the Japanese people are were to move on with the past and go forward despite their conflict with the Russians.

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gollark: ++tel graph
gollark: Someone on the other end wanted to use MANY music bots.
gollark: Well, the bots appear to have incursed into reality somehow.
gollark: I suppose I can move it to a... different... bot... channel?

References
  1. 霧の火 -樺太・真岡郵便局に散った９人の乙女たち (in Japanese). AllCinema. Retrieved 2013-11-04. External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. 平成２０年度（第６３回）文化庁芸術祭賞受賞一覧（参加作品） (PDF) (in Japanese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
  3. 北のひめゆり事件と九人の乙女 (in Japanese). pucchi.net. Retrieved 2013-11-04. External link in |publisher= (help)
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