The Barren Zone

{{Infobox book | italic title =  | name = The Barren Zone | image = File:FumoChitai.jpg | caption = First {{Transliteration|ja|tankōbon}} volume cover | author = Toyoko Yamasaki | audio_read_by = | title_orig = 不毛地帯 | orig_lang_code = ja | title_working = | translator = James T. Araki | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Japan | language = Japanese | series = | release_number = | subject = | genre = | set_in = | publisher = | publisher2 = | pub_date = 1973–78 | english_pub_date = 1985 | published = University of Hawaii Press | media_type = | pages = | awards = | isbn = | isbn_note = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by =  | followed_by =  | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = | website = }}

{{nihongo|'''''The Barren Zone'''''|不毛地帯|Fumō chitai|lead=yes}} is a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It was serialized in the weekly magazine ''Sunday Mainichi'' 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.

==Synopsis== 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.

== 1976 film == {{Infobox film | name = Fumō Chitai | image = File:Fumo Chitai 1976 poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Film poster | director = Satsuo Yamamoto | producer = | writer = | screenplay = Nobuo Yamada | story = | based_on = | narrator = | starring = Tatsuya Nakadai Isao Yamagata Kin'ya Kitaōji Tetsurō Tamba | music = Masaru Sato | cinematography = | editing = | studio = Geiensha | distributor = Toho | released = {{Film date|1976|8|28|Japan}} | runtime = 181 minutes | country = Japan | language = Japanese | budget = | gross = }} {{Nihongo|'''''Fumō Chitai'''''|不毛地帯}} is a 1976 Japanese film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto.<ref name=kotobank>{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E4%B8%8D%E6%AF%9B%E5%9C%B0%E5%B8%AF-735074|title=デジタル大辞泉プラス「不毛地帯」の解説|publisher=kotobank|access-date=11 October 2021}}</ref>

===Cast=== *Tatsuya Nakadai - Tadashi Iki *Tetsurō Tamba - Isao Kawamata *Isao Yamagata - Ichizo Daimon *Jūkei Fujioka - Army Chief General of Kwantung Army *Kin'ya Kitaōji *Takashi Yamaguchi *Kaoru Yachigusa *Shiho Fujimura *Ichirō Nakatani *Hisashi Igawa *Eitaro Ozawa *Etsushi Takahashi - Detective *Jirō Tamiya - Tatsuzo Samejima *Hideji Ōtaki - Seizo Hisamatsu *Noboru Nakaya

===Awards=== '''1st Hochi Film Award'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1976/|script-title=ja:報知映画賞ヒストリー|publisher=Cinema Hochi|language=ja|access-date=2011-01-08|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124051449/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1976/|archive-date=2009-11-24}}</ref> *'''Won''': Best Supporting Actor - Hideji Ōtaki

'''31st Mainichi Film Award'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.japan-movie.net/about/history31.html|script-title=ja:31 1976年|publisher=japan-movie.net|language= ja|access-date=2011-01-08|title=Japan-movie }}</ref> *'''Won''': Best Film *'''Won''': Best Screenplay: Noboru Yamada<ref name=kotobank/>

== 1979 TV series == {{Infobox television | image =  | caption = | alt_name = | genre = | creator = | developer = | writer = | director = | creative_director = | presenter = | starring = Mikijirō Hira | judges = | voices = | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = | country = Japan | language = Japanese | num_seasons =  | num_episodes = 31 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = | editor = | location = | cinematography = | camera = | runtime = | company = | channel = TBS | first_aired = {{start date|1979|4|4}} | last_aired = {{end date|1979|10|31}} | related = }}

===Cast=== *Mikijirō Hira - Tadashi Iki *Tomisaburo Wakayama - Ichizo Daimon *Atsuo Nakamura - Tatsuzo Samejima *Hideo Takamatsu - Tatsuya Satoi *Kimiko Ikegami - Naoko Iki *Takashi Shimura - Masaharu Tanigawa *Kō Nishimura - Seizo Hisamatsu *Tamao Nakamura *Ayumi Ishida *Ichirō Murakoshi - Narrator

== 2009 TV series == {{Infobox television | image =  | name = The Waste Land | caption = | alt_name = | genre = | creator = | developer = | writer = | director = | creative_director = | presenter = | starring = Toshiaki Karasawa Koyuki Kenichi Endō Yutaka Takenouchi Yūki Amami Sadao Abe Kuranosuke Sasaki Toshirō Yanagiba Emi Wakui Isao Hashizume Ittoku Kishibe Yoshio Harada | judges = | voices = | narrator = Issei Futamata | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = Yugo Kanno | country = Japan | language = Japanese | num_seasons =  | num_episodes = 19 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = | editor = | location = | cinematography = | camera = | runtime = | company = | channel = Fuji Television | first_aired = {{start date|2009|3|11}} | last_aired = {{end date|2009|10|15}} | related = }}

===Cast=== *Toshiaki Karasawa - Tadashi Iki *Yoshio Harada - Ichizo Daimon *Kenichi Endō - Tatsuzo Samejima *Ittoku Kishibe - Tatsuya Satoi *Toshirō Yanagiba - Isao Kawamata *Emi Wakui - Yoshiko Iki *Koyuki - Chisato Akitsu *Nicholas Pettas - Pratt *Mikako Tabe - Naoko Iki *Sheryar Khan - Oil Company Manager *Yasunori Danta as Michio Kaizuka *Issei Futamata - Narrator

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0368734|qid=Q61448051|Fumo Chitai}}

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