The Waste Land (2009-Japan-Fuji TV)

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TV Show: The Waste Land
Romaji: Fumo Chitai
Japanese: 不毛地帯
Director: Shin Hirano, Naruhide Mizuta, Kensaku Sawada
Writer: Toyoko Yamazaki (novel), Atsuko Hashibe
Network: Fuji TV
Episodes:
Release Date: October 15, 2009 --
Runtime: Thursday 22:00-22:54
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

A military officer, who was detained for 11 years in a Siberian prison camp after WWII, returns to his native Japan in 1956. The former officer is then recruited by the C. Itoh & Co. trading house and joins their company. With his help, the company over the next two decades rises into a global powerhouse.

Cast



Toshiaki Karasawa	Emi Wakui	Toshiro Yanagiba	Koyuki	Mikako Tabe
Tadashi Iki	Yoshiko Iki	Isao Kawamata	Chisato Akitsu	Naokko Iki



Yoshio Harada	Kenichi Endo	Yuki Amami	Ittoku Kishibe	Atsuo Nakamura
Ichizo Daimon	Tatsumi Sameshima	Beniko Hamanaka	Tatsuya Satoi	Noritake Akitsu



Yutaka Takenouchi	Sadao Abe	Yutaka Matsushige	Arata Furuta	Yoshihiko Hakamada
Shinichiro Hyodo	Hideo Tawara	Hiroshi Koide	Kunio Ashida	Shiro Hanawa



Kuranosuke Sasaki	Isao Hashizume	Zen Kajihara	Shiro Ito	Yasunori Danda
Seiki Akitsu	Masaharu Tanigawa	Kaname Kaifu	Seijo Hisamatsu	Michio Kaiduka

Additional Cast Members:

Shinsho Nakamaru - Masaru Takemura
Shigeru Saiki - Haruhiko Matsumoto
Taira Takahashi - Makoto Iki
Miyoko Akaza
Akihito Yoshiie

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