Kiri no Hi
| Kiri no Hi | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Yō Takeyama |
| Directed by | Nozomu Amamiya |
| Starring |
Karina Nose Etsuko Ichihara Miho Shiraishi Yui Ichikawa Risa Kudō Osamu Mukai |
| Theme music composer | Takeshi Umōda |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| Production | |
| Running time | 138 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nippon Television |
| Original release |
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Kiri no Hi (霧の火?) is a Japanese television drama which originally aired on Nippon Television (NTV) on August 25, 2008. Directed by Nozomu Amamiya and with a screenplay by Yō Takeyama, it starred Etsuko Ichihara and Karina Nose. The production won a TV Drama Award at the 2008 Festival of the Arts of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁芸術祭).
The story takes place in Maoka City, Karafuto, Japan (Currently Kholmsk, Sakhalin, Russian Federation) during the final year of the Pacific War. Nine telephone operators in Maoka took their own lives by taking potassium cyanide when the Soviet Union invaded the city on August 20, 1945. The TV drama is based on this incident and is partially fictional (names of the characters, etc.).
The Soviet Union's invasion of Karafuto is a very sensitive topic and controversial in both Russia and Japan due to the previous border dispute between the two countries. A 1974 movie titled Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon (樺太1945年夏 氷雪の門) portrayed the invasion of Karafuto by the Red Army that claimed the lives of thousands. However, due to political pressure from the Soviet Union, the Japanese government intervened and banned the movie from being aired and sold.
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