| The Barren Zone | |
| Author: | Toyoko Yamasaki |
| Title Orig: | 不毛地帯 |
| Orig Lang Code: | ja |
| Translator: | James T. Araki |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Pub Date: | 1973–78 |
| English Pub Date: | 1985 |
is a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It was serialized in the weekly magazine Sunday Manichi from 1973 to 1978.
The novel was partially adapted into a film starring Tatsuya Nakadai and directed by Satsuo Yamamoto in 1976. It was later adapted into two television miniseries in 1979 and 2009.
Tadashi Iki is captured during the invasion of Manchuria and returns to Japan after being interned for over a decade in Soviet labor camps. Owing to his former position in the Imperial General Staff, he is offered a position at the expansive Kinki Corporation.
| Fumō Chitai | |
| Director: | Satsuo Yamamoto |
| Screenplay: | Nobuo Yamada |
| Starring: | Tatsuya Nakadai Isao Yamagata Kin'ya Kitaōji Tetsurō Tamba |
| Music: | Sato Masaru |
| Studio: | Geiensha |
| Distributor: | Toho |
| Runtime: | 181 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
is a 1976 Japanese film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto.[1]
| Starring: | Mikijirō Hira |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Num Episodes: | 31 |
| Channel: | TBS |
| 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: | Issei Futamata |
| Composer: | Yugo Kanno |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Num Episodes: | 19 |
| Channel: | Fuji Television |