DREAMING OF THE MERIDIAN ARC

TAIGA HENO MICHI

By Kenji NAKANISHI

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Comedy - Completed 2022


    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Comedy, Drama, Biography
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 112 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kenji NAKANISHI
    • Synopsis
    • A team in city office launches a project to bring a great figure of the town into NHK historical drama to revitalize the town. A figure they chose is Ino Tadataka, who is known for completing the first map of Japan. But during the development of the script, the team finds out the staggering fact that Ino had died before the map was completed. Back in 1818, after Ino passed away, his pupils decide to conceal their master’s death and carry out a secret operation to finish the map to honor their master.
      The truth behind the first map of Japan now reveals.