 The Shin Totsukawa Story DR029200
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･NHK ･90 min. x 6 ･M/E & English Version |
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| In August, 1889, Totsukawa Village in Nara prefecture
suffered from a record-breaking flood. The villagers left together in
search of a new start, and headed for Hokkaido, where a wilderness awaited
them. Among them was 9-year-old Fuki, the heroine of this drama, who
had lost her parents in the disaster.
Fuki's childhood was not an easy one, but she married and worked hard with her husband to cultivate the wasteland. However, their happy life did not last long, her husband was drafted into the army when the Russo-Japanese War broke out. In 1918, Fuki's family included her 20-year-old daughter Aya, and her sons Shosaku, 18 and Toyohiko, 14. They were all hard workers, but discord arose within the family over their inheritance rights. Amid the so-called Democratic Age of Taisho-period Japan, the young people struggle to find their own ways of life. As ten years pass Fuki's family faces drastic change. Aya's daughter Ai, whose
lover was drafted and then disappeared, grows desperate after the end
of World War Two. Her parents recommend that she accept an arranged
marriage, and she does. After giving birth to two children, she is able
to lead a happy life for a while, but only until she loses her husband
in the tragic sinking of the Toya-maru ferry in September, 1954.
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