Bōshi

Bōshi (Caps/Hats)
Written by Shunsaku Ikehata
Directed by Hiroshi Kurosaki
Starring Ken Ogata
Yukihide Kasahara
Hayami Takahashi
Yūko Tanaka
Aki Asakura
Tetsuji Tamayama
Ittoku Kishibe
Maho Tomita
Hiromi Yuki
Erika Kobayashi
Toshiyuki Kitami
Asae Onishi
Gan Iwata
Teizo Muta
Takayuki Moriwaki
Shinya Yamamoto
Ryuji Yamamoto
Mitsuomi Aono
Katsuaki Takahashi
Country of origin  Japan
Original language(s) Japanese
Production
Running time 90 minutes
Release
Original network NHK
Original release August 2, 2008
External links
Website web.archive.org/web/20090304051801/http://www.nhk.or.jp/hiroshima/eighty/boushi/

Bōshi (帽子) was a Japanese television special about an elderly man who runs an old haberdashery in Kure. The drama was produced by NHK Hiroshima in 2008 for their 80th anniversary[1] and received the valuable TV drama award at the 63rd Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs Art Festival.[2]

Plot

In the port city of Kure, there is an old hat shop. Shunpei, the elderly shop owner, is proud of his career as a skillful hatter, with famous clients such as fleet admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. However, as time goes on, the number of orders decreases and his memory begins to fail him. Shunpei occasionally has to ask his security guard, Goro, to help him find his scissors.

One day, Shunpei discovers that his childhood friend, Setsu, is Goro's mother. She left Goro due to an issue with her husband, and now she is in the end stages of cancer. Setsu had been physically weak since childhood, due to radiation exposure from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Shunpei had thought of Setsu as a sister, but he couldn't ask her to live with him in Kure, so she left to earn a living in Hiroshima. He missed her ever since.

Shunpei decides to reunite Goro with his mother. Shunpei knows that Setsu has been living in Tokyo, suffering discrimination as a radiation exposure victim. But when Shunpei finds Setsu, she seems to be living quite happily. Setsu still has a small sailor hat which Shunpei made for her years ago, and which always cheers her up in the face of hardship. Setsu showed the hat to Shunpei, to encourage him and renew his pride. Upon seeing the hat, Shunpei's mind is restored and his forgetfulness disappears.

Cast

Theme song

The theme song is titled Inochi no Uta / (Songs can change the world) and was written for NHK's 80th anniversary. The lyrics invite the public to join the song to collect their messages of life and peace.[3]

The Inochi no Uta Project continued in 2009.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ NHK Hiroshima Drama Bōshi Archived March 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ List of Awarded works of ACA 2008 Archived April 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Inochio No Uta, a song from Hiroshima to the world with peace Archived February 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ The theme song by Chitose Hajime for Inochi no Uta Concert on July 5 2008 Archived October 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Inochi no Uta 2009 (Songs can change the world 2009) - NHK Hiroshima Archived February 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
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