Kiri no Hi

Kiri no Hi ? is a Japanese television drama which originally aired on Nippon Television NTV on August 25, 2008. Directed by Nozomu Amamiya and with a screenplay by Y Takeyama, it starred Etsuko Ichihara and Karina Nose. The production won a TV Drama Award at the 2008 Festival of the Arts of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs .

The Soviet Unions invasion of Karafuto is a very sensitive topic and controversial in both Russia and Japan due to the previous border dispute between the two countries. A 1974 movie titled Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon 1945 portrayed the invasion of Karafuto by the Red Army that claimed the lives of thousands. However, due to political pressure from the Soviet Union, the Japanese government intervened and banned the movie from being aired and sold.Kiri no Hi caused less political uproar from Russia due to the movies insistence as fiction and it did not focus on the Red Armys brutal actions but instead talked about world peace. At the end, the granddaughter of the survivor of the Soviet Invasion pointed at Sakhalin and said, Grandma, look, its Sakhalin, with a big smile, instead of calling the island its Japanese name of Karafuto, which hints that the Japanese people are willing to move on with the past and go forward even though they were the victim of the Red Army. ........

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