"A town with a cupola" - A town with a cupola

...With the original family drama (Toake Yukiyo and others), each station competed to produce family dramas, and family dramas not only became the core of television dramas, but also showed a steady prosperity from the 1950s to the present day as one of the most popular programs among the popular media of television. On the other hand, film family dramas have been on the decline during this time, and on the contrary, there have been original attempts at film, such as "Anti-family dramas" (the term was coined by film critic Iwasaki Akira) such as "A Town with a Cupola" (1962, Nikkatsu film directed by Urayama Kiriro, starring Yoshinaga Sayuri and others), which depicts human truth and human growth amidst trials by placing each member of a family in the depths of misery. ...

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…十朱（とあけ）幸代ほか出演)を一つの原型として，以後各局が競ってホームドラマを作るようになり，ホームドラマはテレビドラマの中核的存在となったばかりでなく，テレビという大衆的メディアのなかでも最も大衆に好まれる番組の一つとして，昭和30年代から今日に至るまで，ほぼ変わらぬ隆盛ぶりを示す。　一方，映画のホームドラマは，この間衰退の道をたどり，逆に家族のそれぞれを不幸の底において，試練のなかでの人間的真実と人間の成長を描く《キューポラのある街》(1962。浦山桐郎監督日活作品，吉永小百合ほか出演)のような〈アンチ･ホームドラマ〉(この命名は映画評論家の岩崎昶による)が，映画独自の試みとして行われたりもした。…

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