Song of the Canefields
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- TV Movie: Song of the Canefields
- Romaji: Satoukibi batake no uta
- Japanese: さとうきび畑の唄
- Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa
- Assistant Director: Daisuke Yamamuro
- Writer: Kazuhiko Yukawa
- Network: TBS
- Episode: 1
- Release Date: September 28, 2003
- Runtime: 104 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Hirayama Koichi (Akashiya Sanma) and his wife Michiko (Kuroki Hitomi) 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
- Sanma Akashiya - Koichi Hirayama
- Hitomi Kuroki - Michiko Hirayama
- Kenji Sakaguchi - Isamu Hirayama
- Ryo Katsuji - Noboru Hirayama
- Natsumi Ohira - Haruko Hirayama
- Yukie Nakama - Noriko Hirayama
- Aya Ueto - Mie Hirayama
- Joe Odagiri - Yoshioka
- Ryoko Moriyama - Ryoko Moriyama
- Toshifumi Muramatsu
- Yuika Motokariya
