Toward the Wilderness (2015)
だから荒野
Overview
Morimura Tomomi is a housewife scorned by her husband and two sons, and yet she continues to protect the family. On her 46th birthday, she leaves home in disgust and embarks on a 1,200 km journey. It is Tomomi’s first time driving onto the highway and she speeds along to the west. On the road, she encounters a series of traumatising episodes. She detects her husband’s affair, is faced with a truck driver who mistakes her for a prostitute housewife, and finally her car gets stolen. While Tomomi is at a loss, a good-looking young man and an elderly person give her a ride, and she arrives in Nagasaki. As she meets various people in this town which was once transformed into a wasteland because of the atomic bomb, she becomes aware of a “wilderness” within her and starts to explore the path to rebirth
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|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | NHK On Demand | — | — |
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What is Toward the Wilderness about?
Morimura Tomomi is a housewife scorned by her husband and two sons, and yet she continues to protect the family. On her 46th birthday, she leaves home in disgust and embarks on a 1,200 km journey. It is Tomomi’s first time driving onto the highway and she speeds along to the west. On the road, she encounters a series of traumatising episodes. She detects her husband’s affair, is faced with a truck driver who mistakes her for a prostitute housewife, and finally her car gets stolen. While Tomomi is at a loss, a good-looking young man and an elderly person give her a ride, and she arrives in Nagasaki. As she meets various people in this town which was once transformed into a wasteland because of the atomic bomb, she becomes aware of a “wilderness” within her and starts to explore the path to rebirth Toward the Wilderness is a Drama series, first aired on 2015-01-11, 1 season and 8 episodes.
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Directed by
Tomoya Kanazawa, Sounobu Yamauchi, Takayoshi Watanabe
Cast
- Kyoka Suzuki as Morimura Tomomi
- Tetta Sugimoto as Morimura Hiromitsu
- Issey Takahashi as Kameda Shogo
- YOU as Takigawa Chisako
- Goki Maeda as Morimura Kenta
- Tatsuomi Hamada as Morimura Yuta
- Denden as Tomita
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