Overview
The Dawn of Asia (アジアの曙) is a TV drama consisting of thirteen episodes about the trans-China/Japan collaboration of revolutionaries in the early twentieth century. It was Nagisa Oshima’s rare attempt to direct a TV drama in a social atmosphere in which Japan was embracing postwar prosperity as well as the effects of permeating mass media. Making an effort to reach out to the mass audience through a seemingly conventional method of filmic representation, Dawn of Asia takes up the epic of trans-Asiatic solidarity while challenging nationalism on both sides.
| Actor | Age then | Age now | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | 35 | May 2, 2010 (81) | |
 | 34 | March 25, 1993 (62) | |
 | 29 | 90 | |
 | 33 | August 5, 2002 (71) | |
 | 29 | March 26, 2014 (78) | |
 | 38 | July 11, 2003 (76) | |
 | 37 | June 8, 2007 (79) | |
 | 29 | 90 |