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Sanga Moyu

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| writer = Shin'ichi Ichikawa
Shunsuke Katori

| director = Yūji Murakami and others

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| narrated =

| theme_music_composer = Hikaru Hayashi

| opentheme =

| composer = Hikaru Hayashi

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

| num_seasons =

| num_episodes = 51

| executive_producer =

| producer = Susumu Kondō (chief)

| runtime = 45 minutes

| network = NHK

| first_aired = {{Start date|1984|1|8}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1984|12|23}}

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Sanga Moyu (山河燃ゆ) is a Japanese television drama based on the 1983 novel Futatsu no Sokoku (二つの祖国) by Toyoko Yamazaki. It was NHK's taiga drama in 1984.

Synopsis

The Amo family lives in Los Angeles, California. Two of the sons, Kenji and Tadashi, live in Japan. Kenji returns to the United States before war broke out in 1941, and is sent to Manzanar with his family as part of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Kenji joins the United States Army and is sent to fight in the Philippines, where he shoots Tadashi, who joined the Imperial Japanese Army. Isamu, the third son, joins the 442nd. After the war Kenji finds Nagiko, a childhood friend who had confessed her love for him just before he returned to the United States. She was a victim of the bombing of Hiroshima. Kenji then becomes an interpreter at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, where he commits suicide in the courtroom because of the internal turmoil caused by his split loyalties.{{Cite news|last=Haberman|first=Clyde|date=1984-02-16|title=JAPANESE TV SERIES DEPICTS NISEI PLIGHT (Published 1984)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/16/arts/japanese-tv-series-depicts-nisei-plight.html|access-date=2020-11-21|issn=0362-4331}}

Cast

Reception

Several Japanese American organizations like the Japanese American Citizens League were concerned that the portrayal of split loyalties would affect the movement for redress.{{Cite web|title=Sanga moyu (film) {{!}} Densho Encyclopedia|url=http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Sanga_moyu_(film)/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=encyclopedia.densho.org}} Some individual Japanese Americans, including Mike Masaoka, also wrote to the NHK to express their concerns about airing the show in the United States.{{Cite web|last=Wetherall|first=Will|date=|title=Sanga moyu : Dual nationals caught in a storm over their Mt. Fuji inheritance|url=http://www.yoshabunko.com/literature/Yamasaki_1984_sanga_moyu.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-21|website=www.yoshabunko.com}} It was not broadcast in the United States until 1989. The show's name was also changed from "Futatsu no Sokoku" (Two Homelands) to "Sanga Moyu" (The Mountains and Rivers are Burning) for this reason.{{Cite news|last=林ケ谷|first=昭太郎|date=June 15, 1984|title=日系アメリカ人社会を揺り動かす「二つの祖国」|work=関大|url=https://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/nenshi/sys_img/article_2_124.pdf|access-date=November 21, 2020}}

The series was considered unusual in Japan because NHK's Taiga dramas usually concern history before the Meiji era. Many Japanese films at the time showed Japan as being the victims of World War II, but the NHK chose to include Japanese atrocities.

According to the Japan Times, the original novel was based on the life of Akira Itami.{{Cite web|last=Otake|first=Tomoko|date=2005-08-14|title=Tried to the limit and beyond|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2005/08/14/to-be-sorted/tried-to-the-limit-and-beyond/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=The Japan Times|language=en-US}}

TV schedule

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EpisodeOriginal airdateTitleDirected byRating
1{{Start date|1984|1|8}}{{nihongo|"Shōwa 11nen, Yuki ga"|昭和十一年、雪が}}Yūji Murakami30.5%
2{{Start date|1984|1|15}}{{nihongo|"Kaigenrei"|戒厳令}}Shizuhiro Izuta
3{{Start date|1984|1|22}}{{nihongo|"Kakanashimi eno Jokyoku"|悲しみへの序曲}}Mikio Satō
4{{Start date|1984|1|29}}{{nihongo|"Wakare no Ezōshi"|別れの絵草子}}Yūji Murakami
5{{Start date|1984|2|5}}{{nihongo|"Kazoku"|家族}}Shizuhiro Izuta
6{{Start date|1984|2|12}}{{nihongo|"Little Tokyo"|リトル・トーキョー}}Mikio Satō
7{{Start date|1984|2|19}}{{nihongo|"Sōgen Jōka"|草原情歌}}Yūji Murakami
8{{Start date|1984|2|26}}{{nihongo|"Tairiku e"|大陸へ}}Shizuhiro Izuta
9{{Start date|1984|3|4}}{{nihongo|"Shanghai ni Itteki no Namida wo"|上海に一滴の涙を}}Mikio Satō
10{{Start date|1984|3|11}}{{nihongo|"Sento"|戦都}}Yūji Murakami
11{{Start date|1984|3|18}}{{nihongo|"Ima Hitotabi no"|いまひとたびの}}Shizuhiro Izuta
12{{Start date|1984|3|25}}{{nihongo|"Tairiku kara no Tegami"|大陸からの手紙}}Mikio Satō
13{{Start date|1984|4|1}}{{nihongo|"Sorezore no Seishun"|それぞれの青春}}Yūji Murakami
14{{Start date|1984|4|8}}{{nihongo|"Saraba Nihon yo"|さらば日本よ}}Shizuhiro Izuta
15{{Start date|1984|4|15}}{{nihongo|"Kaisen Zen'ya"|開戦前夜}}Mikio Satō
16{{Start date|1984|4|22}}{{nihongo|"December 8, 1941"|1941年12月8日}}Kōji Matsuoka
17{{Start date|1984|4|29}}{{nihongo|"Pearl Harbor"|パール・ハーバー}}Yūji Murakami
18{{Start date|1984|5|6}}{{nihongo|"Senka no Rinjin-tachi"|戦下の隣人達}}Mikio Satō
19{{Start date|1984|5|13}}{{nihongo|"Nihon-tō wo Umeta Hi"|日本刀を埋めた日}}Shizuhiro Izuta
20{{Start date|1984|5|20}}{{nihongo|"Daitōryō-rei 9066"|大統領令9066}}Yūji Murakami
21{{Start date|1984|5|27}}{{nihongo|"Manzanar Shūyōjo"|マンザナール収容所}}Yūji Murakami
22{{Start date|1984|6|3}}{{nihongo|"Kōya no Party"|荒野のパーティー}}Shizuhiro Izuta
23{{Start date|1984|6|10}}{{nihongo|"Niji no Kanata ni"|虹の彼方に}}Mikio Satō
24{{Start date|1984|6|17}}{{nihongo|"Sokoku America"|祖国アメリカ}}Kōji Matsuoka
25{{Start date|1984|6|24}}{{nihongo|"Bōdō"|暴動}}Shizuhiro Izuta
26{{Start date|1984|7|1}}{{nihongo|"Ningen Test"|人間テスト}}Mikio Satō
27{{Start date|1984|7|8}}{{nihongo|"Sraba Shūyōjo"|さらば収容所}}Yūji Murakami
28{{Start date|1984|7|15}}{{nihongo|"America Rikugun Nihon-go Gakkō"|アメリカ陸軍日本語学校}}Shizuhiro Izuta
29{{Start date|1984|7|22}}{{nihongo|"Rikon"|離婚}}Mikio Satō
30{{Start date|1984|7|29}}{{nihongo|"Chi no Akashi"|血の証し}}Teru Tajima
31{{Start date|1984|8|5}}{{nihongo|"Taiheiyō Sensen"|太平洋戦線}}Yūji Murakami
32{{Start date|1984|8|12}}{{nihongo|"Futatsu no Senjō"|二つの戦場}}Mikio Satō
33{{Start date|1984|8|19}}{{nihongo|"Dare ga Kokyō wo Omowazaru"|誰が故郷を想わざる}}Kōji Matsuoka
34{{Start date|1984|8|26}}{{nihongo|"Tokyo Dai-kūshū"|東京大空襲}}Yūji Murakami
35{{Start date|1984|9|2}}{{nihongo|"Kyōdai Taiketsu"|兄弟対決}}Mikio Satō
36{{Start date|1984|9|9}}{{nihongo|"Shūsen"|終戦}}Teru Tajima
37{{Start date|1984|9|16}}{{nihongo|"Hiroshima"|ヒロシマ}}Shizuhiro Izuta
38{{Start date|1984|9|23}}{{nihongo|"Tokyo-saiban Kaitei"|東京裁判開廷}}Mikio Satō
39{{Start date|1984|9|30}}{{nihongo|"Monitor"|モニター}}Teru Tajima
40{{Start date|1984|10|7}}{{nihongo|"Henshin"|変身}}Shizuhiro Izuta
41{{Start date|1984|10|14}}{{nihongo|"Gaisen"|凱旋}}Morihisa Matsudaira
42{{Start date|1984|10|21}}{{nihongo|"Eirei"|英霊}}Mikio Satō
43{{Start date|1984|10|28}}{{nihongo|"Koto Yūshū"|古都憂愁}}Takeshi Kobayashi
44{{Start date|1984|11|4}}{{nihongo|"Shinjuwan-kōgeki no Nazo"|真珠湾攻撃の謎}}Kōji Matsuoka
45{{Start date|1984|11|11}}{{nihongo|"Washington Heights"|ワシントン・ハイツ}}Shizuhiro Izuta
46{{Start date|1984|11|18}}{{nihongo|"Kagiri-aru Seimei"|限りある生命}}Mikio Satō
47{{Start date|1984|11|25}}{{nihongo|"Yakeato no Seiya"|焼跡の聖夜}}Teru Tajima
48{{Start date|1984|12|2}}{{nihongo|"Kyōdai Wakai"|兄弟和解}}Yūji Murakami
49{{Start date|1984|12|9}}{{nihongo|"Saishū Ronkoku"|最終論告}}Mikio Satō
50{{Start date|1984|12|16}}{{nihongo|"Senkoku"|宣告}}Shizuhiro Izuta
51{{Start date|1984|12|23}}{{nihongo|"Aratanaru Tabidachi"|新たなる旅立ち}}Yūji Murakami
colspan="5"|Average rating 21.1% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region).

References

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Category:1980s drama television series

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