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The Barren Zone

First tankōbon volume cover
Author	Toyoko Yamasaki
Original title	不毛地帯
Translator	James T. Araki
Language	Japanese
Publication date	1973–78
Publication place	Japan
Published in English	1985

The Barren Zone (Japanese: 不毛地帯, Hepburn: Fumō chitai) is a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It was serialized in the weekly magazine Sunday Manichi 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.

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.

Fumō Chitai
Directed by	Satsuo Yamamoto
Screenplay by	Nobuo Yamada
Starring	Tatsuya Nakadai Isao Yamagata Kin'ya Kitaōji Tetsurō Tamba
Music by	Sato Masaru
Production company	Geiensha
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	August 28, 1976
Running time	181 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Fumō Chitai (不毛地帯) is a 1976 Japanese film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto.^[1]

• 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

1st Hochi Film Award^[2]

• Won: Best Supporting Actor - Hideji Ōtaki

31st Mainichi Film Award^[3]

• Won: Best Film
• Won: Best Screenplay: Noboru Yamada^[1]

The Barren Zone
Starring	Mikijirō Hira
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	31
Original release
Network	TBS
Release	April 4 – October 31, 1979

• 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

The Waste Land
Starring	Toshiaki Karasawa Koyuki Kenichi Endō Yutaka Takenouchi Yūki Amami Sadao Abe Kuranosuke Sasaki Toshirō Yanagiba Emi Wakui Isao Hashizume Ittoku Kishibe Yoshio Harada
Narrated by	Issei Futamata
Composer	Yugo Kanno
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	19
Original release
Network	Fuji Television
Release	March 11 – October 15, 2009

• 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

• Fumo Chitai at IMDb