Satokibi Batake no Uta
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- Title: さとうきび畑の唄 (さとうきびばたけのうた)
- Title (romaji): Satokibi Batake no Uta
- Also known as: Song of the Canefields
- Format: Tanpatsu
- Genre: Historical fiction
- Broadcast network: TBS
- Broadcast period: 2003-Sep-28
- Theme Song: Satokibi Batake (さとうきび畑) by Moriyama Ryoko
Synopsis
Hirayama Koichi and his wife Michiko eloped from Osaka to Okinawa, where they lived happily with their five children. When war erupts, their eldest son is drafted into the Imperial army. As fighting spreads, the family takes refuge far from the city, but soon, child after child is drafted to serve in various branches of the military and in organizations supporting the war cause. Koichi himself is faced with a moral dilemma when he is ordered to kill a wounded American soldier. --- (KIKU-TV)
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Cast
- Akashiya Sanma as Hirayama Koichi
- Kuroki Hitomi as Hirayama Michiko
- Sakaguchi Kenji as Hirayama Isamu
- Nakama Yukie as Hirayama Noriko
- Ueto Aya as Hirayama Mie
- Odagiri Joe as Yoshioka
- Katsuji Ryo as Hirayama Noboru
- Ohira Natsumi as Hirayama Haruko
- Muramatsu Toshifumi
- Motokariya Yuika
Production Credits
- Screenwriter: Yukawa Kazuhiko
- Producer: Yagi Yasuo
- Director: Fukuzawa Katsuo
Awards
- Grand prize at the National Arts Festival by the Agency of Cultural Affairs (Japan, 2004)