Details
Title: 広島・昭和２０年８月６日
Title (romaji): Hiroshima Showa 20 nen 8 Gatsu Muika
Also known as: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: Historical, documentary
Viewership ratings: 19.1
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast date: 2005-Aug-29
Air time: Monday 21:00
Theme song: Nada Sou Sou by Natsukawa Rimi
Synopsis
The story is narrated by Nishida Toshiyuki's character at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. A story during the summer of 1945 (60 years earlier). At one time a row of shophouses and private homes lined the vicinity. That was where the Yajima family resided - four merry, close siblings who were orphans. Matsu Takako (Yajima Shinobu) plays the oldest daugther who runs the Yajima family inn after the death of her parents while looking out for her younger siblings - Kato Ai (Yajima Nobuko), Nagasawa Masami (Yajima Maki), Tomiura Satoshi (Yajima Toshiaki). Harsh, painful ordeals visit each of the Yajima siblings during the war. Their only brother is called to go to war. Days later the sisters see Toshiaki off at Hiroshima station...
Cast
Matsu Takako as Yajima Shinobu
Kato Ai as Yajima Nobuko
Nagasawa Masami as Yajima Maki
Tomiura Satoshi as Yajima Toshiaki (child)
Nishida Toshiyuki as Yahima Toshiaki (elderly)
Kokubun Taichi as Shigematsu Michaki
Tamayama Tetsuji as Ohara Yasuhide
Fukada Aki as Kaneda Mika
Ishimaru Kenjiro as Officer Hirose
Komoto Masahiro as the clothing factory instructor
Izumiya Shigeru as the mailman
Mitsuishi Ken as the guard
Morita Konomi as Maki's classmate
Fugane Shigeya as the high school student
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Yukawa Kazuhiko
Producer: Nasuda Jun
Production: Yagi Yasuo
Director: Fukuzawa Katsuo
Awards
2006 National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB) Awards: Best Television Program
Notes
Viewership in the Hiroshima region was 28%.
This was the first program in the Nada Sou Sou Project, which featured special TV dramas to celebrate TBS's 50th anniversary.
An edited version was aired 2006-Sep-29 from 21:00~23:00, featuring some new scenes not shown in the original premiere and cutting out other scenes.
