Junichirou Tanizaki's "Snow Snow"
Needless to say, Junichirou Tanizaki's book "Hosoyuki" is a story set in the Kansai region, but since the older sister moved to Tokyo, the number of sisters visiting Tokyo has increased considerably.
Junichirou Tanizaki is also from Chuo-ku, and scenes such as Ginza and Tsukiji are quite depicted.
About four and a half years ago, I have posted several times under the theme of "Tokyo in the Snowfall."
(1) https://tokuhain.chuo-kanko.or.jp/archive/2015/12/post-2939.html
(December 11, 2015)
(2) https://tokuhain.chuo-kanko.or.jp/archive/2015/12/post-2942.html
(December 12, 2015)
(3) https://tokuhain.chuo-kanko.or.jp/archive/2015/12/post-2947.html
(December 17, 2015)
(4) https://tokuhain.chuo-kanko.or.jp/archive/2015/12/post-2961.html
(December 22, 2015)
(5) https://tokuhain.chuo-kanko.or.jp/archive/2015/12/post-2968.html
(December 22, 2015)
(6) https://tokuhain.chuo-kanko.or.jp/archive/2015/12/post-2971.html
(December 25, 2015)
(7) https://tokuhain.chuo-kanko.or.jp/archive/2015/12/post-2972.html
(December 26, 2015)
This "Snow Snow" has been turned into a movie three times in the past, and recently it has been turned into a TV movie under the title of "Heisei Hosetsu".
(1) 1950 Shin Toho (Director) Yutaka Abe
(Appearance) Ranko Hanai, Yukiko Todoroki, Hisako Yamane, Hideko Takamine
(2) 1959 Daiei (director) Koji Shima
(Appearance) Yuko Todoroki, Machiko Kyo, Fujiko Yamamoto, Junko Kano
(3) Toho 1983 (Director) Kon Ichikawa
(Appearance) Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yuko Kotegawa
(4) "Heisei Hosetsu" NHK broadcast in January 2018
(Appearance) Miho Nakayama, Saki Takaoka, Ayumi Ito, Yuri Nakamura
I watch (3) at the theater at the time of release, and (1) and (2) on DVD. The time setting was changed in (2) after the war, and (4) in the early Heisei period after the collapse of the bubble economy, just before the Kobe earthquake. In (2), a little scene in Tokyo appears, but there is no description of Chuo-ku. In other works, there is no scene depicting Tokyo at all.
(3) About Keiko Kishi stated in the Nikkei Shimbun "My Resume" in May, a behind-the-scenes story when she appeared.
(3) Overseas DVDs (with audio Japanese and English subtitles) are also available. I imported through Amazon.UK, but I bought it much cheaper than I bought it in the country.
(4) It is four times (54 minutes x 4), the most feature, but the original content is skillfully re-established in the Heisei era, and it is a modern story development of the story of women living after the collapse of the bubble . DVDs are expensive (why is NHK released so expensive?) It can be viewed relatively cheaply on-demand broadcasts.