Yokubou no Kawa (Showa no Meisaku Library 154) Collector's DVD [HD Remastered Edition]

[Machine Translation] A woman lives in the fiction of the night, seeking love and dreaming of being a wife. This masterpiece of daytime drama depicting the love-hate drama of a family swirling with hatred and desire, starring Midori Mayuki in a glamorous performance, has finally been made into a software package for the first time! A woman meets a man on the banks of the river of desire. The man's name is Takeshi Kusakabe ( Asao Uchida ), the president of Kusakabe Kaiun, which operates more than a dozen affiliated companies in Yokohama, Kobe, and Hakata, and is an elderly man who lost his second wife four years ago. The woman's name is Akiko Ushijima (Midori Satsuki), a hostess at a club in Hakata. She was born in Tokyo and lost her parents in an air raid when she was four years old. Since then, she has been cheated and betrayed by men many times, but she dreams of one day becoming a housewife in an ordinary family. Today, Akiko dreams again that perhaps this man will make her dream come true. Akiko's life changes drastically as she finds herself thrown into the vortex of love and hatred that swirls around the Kusakabe family... First broadcast: July 12 - August 20, 1976 (Showa 51) on Fuji Television Network. Total of 30 episodes. With commentary.

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夜の虚飾の中に生きながら、愛を求め、妻の座を夢見るひとりの女。主演の五月みどりの艶やかな演技が光る、憎しみと欲望渦巻く家族の愛憎劇を描いた昼ドラの傑作が遂に初ソフト化! ──欲望という河の岸辺で女は一人の男と巡り合った。男の名は日下部丈 (内田朝雄)といい、横浜、神戸、博多に関連会社十数社を経営する日下部海運の社長であり、4年前に2度目の妻を失った初老の男だった。そして女の名は牛島秋子 (五月みどり)といい、博多のクラブのホステスである。東京で生まれ4歳の時に両親を空襲で失い、以来、幾度となく人に騙され男に裏切られながらも、いつか平凡な家庭の主婦になる日を夢見ていた。ひょっとしたらこの人が私の夢をかなえてくれるかもと、今日もまた夢を見る秋子だった。この巡り合いにより秋子の人生は大きく変わり、日下部家にうごめく愛と憎しみが激しく交錯する渦の中に身を投じていく・・・。初回放送: 1976年 (昭和51年)7月12日～8月20日/フジテレビ系。全30回収録。解説書付。