The new NHK drama "Stranger: Ryunosuke Wasagawa in Shanghai", starring Ryuhei Matsuda, recently exposed the first batch of stills.
The TV series is based on Ryunosuke Wasagawa's "Travels to Shanghai", telling the story of Wasagawa's travels to Shanghai in 1921, with Matsuda Ryuhei playing the protagonist. Chinese actors Jin Shijia, Takashi Okabe, Yuri Nakamura, and Natsu participated.
Ryunosuke Wasagawa began working for the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun in 1919, and traveled to China in 1921, visiting Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Wuhu, Hankou, Dongting Lake, Changsha, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Longmen, Beijing and other places, and publishing "Shanghai Travels" and "Jiangnan Travels" after returning to China.
Stills from the movie Rashomon
As a Japanese literary hero, Ryunosuke Wasagawa's representative works include "Rashomon Gate", "In the Bamboo Forest", "Nose", "Theft", "Ball" and so on. The classic work "Rashomon" by Japanese film master Akira Kurosawa combines his short stories "Rashomon" and "In the Bamboo Forest" into one.
Editor: Wang Xiaoli