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Jan 23, 2021
With the new year comes a new yearlong, weekly historical drama series from Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK. This year’s is “Seiten o Tsuke,” which is about Shibusawa Eiichi, often called the father of Japanese capitalism, one of the most important figures of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) and the man who founded the first bank in Japan based on joint stock ownership. Shibusawa’s face will grace the new ¥10,000 bills.
He is being played by Ryo Yoshizawa, who turns 27 on Feb. 1. Yoshizawa first gained popularity in 2011, when he was still a teenager, on the superhero TV show “Kamen Rider Fourze,” and became known to a wider audience with the 2018 theatrical film “River’s Edge,” for which he received the newcomer’s award from the judges of the Japan Academy Film Prize. Yoshizawa solidified his appeal on NHK’s daily half-year morning drama in 2019, “Natsuzora,” which may have had something to do with NHK’s casting him as the lead in “S
A scene from Tezuka s Barbara (Provided by Free Stone Productions Co.)
Director Makoto Tezuka accepted the risky challenge of adapting what is perhaps his famous father s most peculiar manga, a piece so personal that likely only the man who wrote it truly grasped its meaning.
Based on Barubora by Osamu Tezuka, aka the god of manga, Tezuka s Barbara is a fantasy riddled with decadence. I think this was the only manga that my father had trouble in creating, the director said. In a positive sense, its instability is all the more reason for it to be strangely appealing.
The story begins when novelist Mikura (Goro Inagaki) meets Barbara (Fumi Nikaido), a vagabond whom he describes as a woman who is like an excrement discharged after a city swallowed and digested several tens of millions of people.