The Plot

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.

Top Billed Cast

Shinsuke Mikimoto
Minetaro Nakayama Akiko Koyama
Yasuko Nakayama Kei Satō
Li Lie-jun Rokkō Toura
Zhou Yu-Xian Noriko Matsumoto
Yukiko Saeki Hōsei Komatsu
He Zi-qui Hideo Kanze
Chinese general Mari Yoshimura
Yu-Rong Sayuri Tachikawa
Ling-ling