"Glowing mural"
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DVD: 4,180 yen (tax included)
Publisher: TV Asahi
Distributor: Shochiku
©2011 TV Asahi, Shochiku
*Information as of February 2022.
Glowing mural
Immediately after the war, their invention achieved a world first.
A moving drama that depicts the indomitable passion of the men who attempted to develop a gastroscope amid the despair of post-war Japan, and the love of the wives who supported them.
Sato Ryuta takes on the role of a researcher who invented the world's first "gastroscope"!
He gives a passionate performance as a man who was wounded in the war but devoted himself to "research that saves lives."
- Release (broadcast) year
- February, 2011
- Date of shooting or release
- 2011
- Director Name
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Nobuyuki Takahashi
Film director
- Performer
- Kikuo Sone:佐藤隆太
- Kyoko Sone:Ai Kato
- Tetsuro Kaji: Shunsuke Nakamura
- Shujiro Tsukamoto: Kamejiro Ichikawa
- Toshio Sato: Susumu Terajima
- Yasuyo Matsuura:Mari Hoshino
- Hajime Imamura: Takashi Tsukamoto (guest appearance)
- Teizo Sakagami: Ren Osugi
- Tatsuo Matsuura: Masato Hagiwara
- Ichio Noguchi: Takeshi Masu
- Mitsuko Ohata: Mayumi Asaka
Other
*The actors in bold appeared at the locations listed below.
Filming location of this work
●Scenes include the reunion between Sone Kikuo (Sato Ryuta) and Sone Kyoko (Kato Ai), as well as scenes between Matsuura Yasuyo (Hoshino Mari) and Sone Kyoko (Kato Ai).
*This scene appears in the video (0:40, 0:56)
The town is home to Takeno Beach, a popular location for filming movies and TV dramas, and traditional wooden-walled houses lined up in regular rows to avoid the strong winter winds of the Sea of Japan.
