Matsudaira Ken Shuen Ningen no Joken (Showa no Meisaku Library 143) Collector's DVD

[Machine Translation] Ken Matsudaira's first starring role! The long-awaited first soft version of the best-selling novel of the same title by Junpei Gomikawa, which became an unprecedented best-seller, has finally been made into a TV drama 50 years before it was broadcast! Set in wartime Manchuria, this immortal masterpiece tells on a grand scale about the love between husband and wife, human dignity, and true human love through the life of the main character Kaji, who is suffering under the inhuman conditions brought about by the war! --The film depicts the epic life of Kaji (Matsudaira Ken), who was forced to throw himself into the vortex of war in Manchuria (now northern China) from the end of World War II to the immediate aftermath of the war because he was too faithful to his own way of life. After graduating from university, Kaji seeks a job at a steel company in Manchuria, where the call-up rate is low, and he is married to Michiiko (Yoko Horikoshi), who works at the same company. Kaji, who had doubts about the war itself, chooses a job at Laohuling, a mine deep in the mountains, in exchange for exemption from the draft, and is assigned there with his wife, Michiiko. As the mine's labor manager, Kaji is given the task of managing the Chinese prisoners of war. He tries to improve their work environment and motivate them to work, but he gradually comes into conflict with the other Japanese... 55 episodes in all. Commentary (with a special interview with Matsudaira Ken, the star of the film) enclosed. First broadcast: April 19 - July 2, 1976 (Showa 51) on Fuji Television Network

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松平健 初主演作品! 空前のベストセラーとなった五味川純 平の同名小説をドラマ化した感動巨篇が、放送から50年を目前に遂に待望の初ソフト化! 戦時下の満州を舞台に、戦争がもたらす非人間的な状況で苦悩する主人公・梶の生き方を通して、夫婦愛、人としての尊厳、真の人間愛について壮大なスケールで綴った不朽の名作! ――第二次世界大戦の末期から終戦直後まで、満州(現: 中国北部)の地で、自らの生き方に誠実なあまり戦争の渦中に身を投じなければならなかった梶(松平健)の壮絶な人生を描く。梶は大学卒業後、招集率の少ない外地の会社に職を求め満州の製鋼会社に就職し、同じ会社の美千子(堀越陽子)と結ばれる。戦争そのものに疑問を抱いていた梶は、徴兵の免除と引き換えに山奥の鉱山・老虎嶺での仕事を選び、妻・美千子と一緒に赴任する。その鉱山の労務管理者として、中国人捕虜たちを管理する仕事を任された梶は、職場環境を改善して彼らの働く意欲を上げさせようと努力するが、しだいに他の日本人たちと対立していく・・・。全55回収録。解説書 (主演・松平健スペシャルインタビュー掲載) 封入。初回放送: 1976年(昭和51年)4月19日～7月2日/フジテレビ系