Fumō Chitai

Fumō Chitai (不毛地帯, literally "Wasted Land") is a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It has been adapted into a movie in 1976 and then twice as a television mini-series in 1979 and 2009.

First edition

Relationship with actual events

• The main character Tadashi Iki is widely seen as based on the real life Ryuzo Sejima
• However, in the work, Iki finally hits big success in oil business, whilst the actual Sejima attempts in the field ended as a major failure.

1976 film

Fumō Chitai
Directed by	Satsuo Yamamoto
Screenplay by	Nobuo Yamada
Starring	Tatsuya Nakadai Isao Yamagata Kin'ya Kitaōji Tetsurō Tamba
Music by	Sato Masaru
Release date	1976 (1976)
Running time	181 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Fumō Chitai (不毛地帯) is a 1976 Japanese film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto.^[1]

Cast

• Tatsuya Nakadai - Tadashi Iki
• Tetsurō Tamba - Isao Kawamata
• Isao Yamagata - Ichizo Daimon
• Jūkei Fujioka - Army Chief General of Kwantung Army
• Kin'ya Kitaōji
• Takashi Yamaguchi
• Kaoru Yachigusa
• Shiho Fujimura
• Ichirō Nakatani
• Hisashi Igawa
• Eitaro Ozawa
• Etsushi Takahashi - Detective
• Jirō Tamiya - Tatsuzo Samejima
• Hideji Ōtaki - Seizo Hisamatsu

Awards

1st Hochi Film Award^[2]

• Won: Best Supporting Actor - Hideji Ōtaki

31st Mainichi Film Award^[3]

• Won: Best Film
• Won: Best Screenplay : Noboru Yamada^[1]

1979 TV series

Fumō Chitai
Starring	Mikijirō Hira
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	31
Release
Original network	TBS
Original release	April 4 (1979-04-04) – October 31, 1979 (1979-10-31)

Cast

• Mikijirō Hira - Tadashi Iki
• Tomisaburo Wakayama - Ichizo Daimon
• Atsuo Nakamura - Tatsuzo Samejima
• Hideo Takamatsu - Tatsuya Satoi
• Kimiko Ikegami - Naoko Iki
• Takashi Shimura - Masaharu Tanigawa
• Kō Nishimura - Seizo Hisamatsu
• Tamao Nakamura
• Ayumi Ishida
• Ichirō Murakoshi - Narrator

2009 TV series

Fumō Chitai
Starring	Toshiaki Karasawa Koyuki Kenichi Endō Yutaka Takenouchi Yūki Amami Sadao Abe Kuranosuke Sasaki Toshirō Yanagiba Emi Wakui Isao Hashizume Ittoku Kishibe Yoshio Harada
Narrated by	Issei Futamata
Composer	Yugo Kanno
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	19
Release
Original network	Fuji Television
Original release	March 11 (2009-03-11) – October 15, 2009 (2009-10-15)

Cast

• Toshiaki Karasawa - Tadashi Iki
• Yoshio Harada - Ichizo Daimon
• Kenichi Endō - Tatsuzo Samejima
• Ittoku Kishibe - Tatsuya Satoi
• Toshirō Yanagiba - Isao Kawamata
• Emi Wakui - Yoshiko Iki
• Koyuki - Chisato Akitsu
• Nicholas Pettas - Pratt
• Mikako Tabe - Naoko Iki
• Sheryar Khan - Oil Company Manager
• Issei Futamata - Narrator

References

1. "デジタル大辞泉プラス「不毛地帯」の解説". kotobank. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
2. (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 2009-11-24. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
3. 31 1976年 (in Japanese). japan-movie.net. Retrieved 2011-01-08.

External links

• Fumo Chitai at IMDb