The Wind, The Storm

2022•49m•6.0/10

Drama

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6.0/10(1)

Noe Ito. Women's liberation activist in the Taisho era. 100 years ago, with a stroke of her hand, she challenged the institution of marriage and social morality head-on. She uses her exuberant passion as her sole source of support. Admiration for Raiteu Hiratsuka, who wrote that “in the beginning, women were the sun”, her life with her first husband, Dadaist Jun Tsuji, and Sakae Osugi, the anarchist who became the better half of her life. Meeting with... She lived a wild life in search of freedom, and when she tried to flourish as a writer, unreasonable violence took her life at the age of 28, but her life was a life that boldly confronted social contradictions that are common today, such as poverty and gender disparity. is once again shaking the present filled with a sense of stagnation.

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Production

NHK

Language

Status

Ended

First Aired

September 4, 2022

Last Aired

September 18, 2022

Networks

NHK

Created By

Tsuyoshi Yanagawa

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

Episode 1

Air date: 2022-09-04

100 years ago from now. The status of women was low, and it was an era when good wives and wise mothers were sought. Noe Ito (Yuriko Yoshitaka), who grew up in the countryside of Fukuoka, enters a girls' school in Tokyo, where her teacher, Tsuji (Goro Inagaki), tells her of the existence of her "Aofumi" and captures her heart. Sensing her talent in Noeda, who kicked her marriage to support her poor family and returned to Tokyo in search of her freedom, Tsuji gives her her knowledge and guides her. With her overflowing passion, she knocks on the gates of Noeda Haraiteu (Matsushita Nao)'s Seitosha and becomes a young icon of her time.

Episode 2

Air date: 2022-09-11

Noeda appeals for inequality in the world one after another through Aotomi. However, the public opinion is harsh, and finally pays himself to retire. Noeda took over Aotomi from Raiteu, but the relationship with Tsuji gradually cracked, and Aotomi was also discontinued. While the wind blows against Noeda, he meets Sakae Osugi (Eita Nagayama), an anarchist who is a child of the times. Noeda chooses to break up with Tsuji and rushes to Osugi, but what awaits her is a square relationship called free love.

Episode 3

Air date: 2022-09-18

Noeda and Osugi, who strongly desire freedom, are determined to walk life together as comrades. Then, in order to create an equal and fair society, he used "words" as weapons to confront unreasonable power. The Great Kanto Earthquake broke out just as he was about to make his eventful life bloom even more. The world descends into chaos, and suspicion is cast on Noeda, Osugi, and other anarchists... and unreasonable violence attacks them.