Best Field The 20th Anniversary Onna no Kao (Showa no Meisaku Library 125) Collector's DVD

[Machine Translation] The popular dramatization of Yumie Hiraiwa's novel of the same title, starring Masayo Utsumiya, has finally been released for the first time on DVD after a lapse of more than 50 years! This masterpiece depicts the earnest love and tumultuous adolescence of a lonely woman returning from the U.S., against the backdrop of the Showa era (1926-1989) world and human emotions! --Masaki Tsunaki (Masayo Utsunomiya), the fruit of love between a brave warrior who was mobilized as a student and scattered in the skies of Okinawa as a member of a suicide squadron and a female volunteer corps member, was born with little luck, but she grew up brightly in America, receiving all the love of her mother and growing up beautifully as a Japanese woman with strict discipline. She grew up to be a beautiful Japanese woman with strict discipline. After her mother's death, Masaki was on her way back to her native Japan, carrying her mother's remains in her heart, when she met her destiny, Haruna and Shinichiro Mooka, who were to become her father and son. When Masaki arrived in Japan, she was coldly kicked out of her father's family home in Tokyo, the Furukawa family, where she had gone to deliver her father's belongings, and although she was warmly welcomed at her mother's birthplace in Kagoshima, where the remains were deposited, she realized that this was not a safe place for Masaki after all. Masaki returns to Tokyo and moves in with the Tojo family as a housekeeper, but their shared grief over the loss of their mother and father in the war quickly brings them closer together, and Takashi confesses his love to Masaki.... Contains 26 episodes. Commentary enclosed. First broadcast: April 2 - September 24, 1971 on Tokyo Channel 12 (currently TV Tokyo)

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平岩弓枝の同名小説を宇津宮雅代主演でドラマ化した人気作が、50年以上の時を経て遂に初ソフト化! アメリカから帰国した孤独な女性の、ひたむきな愛と波乱にみちた青春を、昭和の世相と人情を背景に描いた傑作! ――学徒動員による特攻隊員として沖縄の空に散った勇士と、女子挺身隊員との愛の結晶、津奈木まさき (宇津宮雅代) は、幸薄く生まれたにもかかわらず、母の愛を一身に受けてアメリカで明るく育ち、日本女性として厳しい躾もうけながら美しく成長した。母の死後、その遺骨を大切に胸に抱きかかえ祖国の日本に帰国の途中、運命の人となる真岡春奈、真岡慎一郎親子に出逢った。日本に到着したまさきは、父の遺品を届けに行った東京の父の実家・古河家を冷たく追い出され、遺骨を納めた鹿児島の母の生家では温かく迎え入れられたものの、所詮まさきには安住の地ではないことを悟った。東京に戻ったまさきは、家政婦として東条家に住み込むことになったが、東条家の長男・高志は母を、まさきは父を戦争で失ったという共通の悲しみが二人の心を急速に接近させ、高志はまさきに愛の告白をするのであった・・・。全26話収録。解説書封入。初回放送: 1971年 (昭和46年) 4月2日～9月24日/東京12チャンネル (現・テレビ東京)