is a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It was serialized in the weekly magazine Sunday Mainichi from 1973 to 1978.
The novel was partially adapted into a film starring Tatsuya Nakadai and directed by Satsuo Yamamoto in 1976. It was later adapted into two television miniseries in 1979 and 2009.
Synopsis Tadashi Iki is captured during the invasion of Manchuria and returns to Japan after being interned for over a decade in Soviet labor camps. Owing to his former position in the Imperial General Staff, he is offered a position at the expansive Kinki Corporation.
1976 film
is a 1976 Japanese film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto.
Cast Tatsuya Nakadai - Tadashi Iki Tetsurō Tamba - Isao Kawamata Isao Yamagata - Ichizo Daimon Jūkei Fujioka - Army Chief General of Kwantung Army Kin'ya Kitaōji Takashi Yamaguchi Kaoru Yachigusa Shiho Fujimura Ichirō Nakatani Hisashi Igawa Eitaro Ozawa Etsushi Takahashi - Detective Jirō Tamiya - Tatsuzo Samejima Hideji Ōtaki - Seizo Hisamatsu Noboru Nakaya
Awards 1st Hochi Film Award Won: Best Supporting Actor - Hideji Ōtaki
31st Mainichi Film Award Won: Best Film Won: Best Screenplay: Noboru Yamada
1979 TV series
Cast Mikijirō Hira - Tadashi Iki Tomisaburo Wakayama - Ichizo Daimon Atsuo Nakamura - Tatsuzo Samejima Hideo Takamatsu - Tatsuya Satoi Kimiko Ikegami - Naoko Iki Takashi Shimura - Masaharu Tanigawa Kō Nishimura - Seizo Hisamatsu Tamao Nakamura Ayumi Ishida Ichirō Murakoshi - Narrator
2009 TV series
Cast Toshiaki Karasawa - Tadashi Iki Yoshio Harada - Ichizo Daimon Kenichi Endō - Tatsuzo Samejima Ittoku Kishibe - Tatsuya Satoi Toshirō Yanagiba - Isao Kawamata Emi Wakui - Yoshiko Iki Koyuki - Chisato Akitsu Nicholas Pettas - Pratt Mikako Tabe - Naoko Iki Sheryar Khan - Oil Company Manager Yasunori Danta as Michio Kaizuka Issei Futamata - Narrator
Netflix edition It is streamed on Netflix without the "ending theme" of "Tom Traubert's Blues", from the 1976 studio album Small Change, sung by Tom Waits, as written in the trailer, and without dubbing, but subtitled in the nine languages Chinese (long characters), English, French, German, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese (Brasil), Spanish (Latin America) and Thai.
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