Details
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)
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)
