| Alt Name: | Hiroshima, August 6, Showa 20 (1945) |
| Runtime: | 140 minutes |
| Starring: | Takako Matsu Ai Kato Masami Nagasawa Tetsuji Tamayama Masahiro Komoto Aki Fukada Kenjirō Ishimaru Ken Mitsuishi Konomi Morita Shigeya Fugane Shigeru Izumiya Taichi Kokubun Satoshi Tomiura Toshiyuki Nishida |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Network: | TBS network |
is a Japanese television special drama.
The story is about a family of three sisters and one brother with a dog living and running a Japanese Ryokan in Tenjin-cho, Hiroshima near Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall.
The drama was made as the first drama of Nada So So Project by TBS for its 50th anniversary in 2005.[1]
The drama has been awarded the 2006 best TV program award of "NAB Awards" [2] from the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association.
In the summer 2005, an old gentleman began to talk about a "sixty years ago story" to the school study trip students in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
It was a story about three sisters and one brother, when residents' houses, offices, shops restaurants, hospitals, schools, temples, hotels,... were used to be there in around the peace park.
Back to July 16, 1945, end of World War II, the town used to be called "Tenjin-cho", one of the towns in Hiroshima, there were people's life as the real town.
"Shinobu" as the eldest sister of Yajima family, was running her Yajima-Ryokan which was given from her dead parents. She was taking care of her younger sisters and a brother.
The second elder sister, "Nobuko" was teaching at primary school as a substitute teacher, she has wished to change something, even during the war.
The third sister, "Maki" was a high school student, was working hard for a factory as one of the mobilized students at wartime.
The youngest brother, "Toshiaki", loved flowers and animals, sweet, kind and good boy, but he had been called into the armed forces. He didn't wanted to show his fear to his sisters. But, only Shinobu had noticed that he was crying to his dog "Goro" at night. A boy who loved creatures, how come he had to go to the war.
And a few days later, after Toshiaki left his family, the light went off, but his dog gave them a feel better.
One day, Maki met a school girl "Mika" who was playing ballet at the factory. When Maki saw that Mika had treat badly by a factory officer, Maki took Mika's hand to escape from the factory.
Nobuko took her students to play in a mountain because she felt her students were got tired from their demolishing buildings for a firebreak. But, it was notified by a military police and then caught.
Shinobu tried to ask them Maki to free. At the time, Shinobu received a letter from "Michiaki" who asked Shinobu to get married with him.
And August 6 8:15 AM...