``Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?” A TV drama that has returned to its original home = movie theaters

``Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?”Synopsis

Five boys, including elementary school students Norimichi (Yuta Yamazaki) and Yusuke (Takayuki Tanda), have a simple question: When you look at fireworks from the side, are they round or flat? I plan to go to the lighthouse on the outskirts of town to find out. On the same day, Nazuna (Megumi Okina), who had decided to transfer to another school due to her parents' divorce, plans to elope with the winner of one of the two competing in the pool, Norimichi and Yusuke. The fate of the battle between a boy and a girl for their delicate yet fresh love is sublimated to two different endings.

Index

• TV dramas released in theaters
• Great achievement of becoming the first TV drama to win the Japan Film Directors Association Newcomer Award
• Why was the TV drama released in theaters?
• sudden theatrical release

TV dramas released in theaters

Even now that distribution has become widespread, movies basically go through the following process: theatrical release -> software version/distribution -> TV broadcasting, so even if the TV drama that touches the most viewers is released in theaters, the audience will not be able to visit the theater. You might think that it will never be successful, but even if it is difficult to expand the release, if a high-quality work is re-released in a mini-theater, it can turn out to be an unexpected hit. In recent years, cutscenes have been added to the drama `` Sono Machi no Kodomo '' (2010), which aired on NHK from 11 p.m. and was set in Kobe 15 years after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and received a great response. It was released in theaters.

Works produced as overseas TV movies are sometimes released theatrically as movies in Japan. Director Steven Spielberg's film debut was released in Japan as `` Clash! ” (1971), but in the United States, “ Zoku Duel/ Carjacking ” (1974) was his debut work.

“Clash! '' was originally broadcast as one of the American ABC TV programs ``Movies of the Week.'' It received high viewership ratings, and due to its high ratings it was released in theaters in Japan and Europe, and the Japanese title of the original debut film ``The Sugarland Express'' was later changed to ``Zoku Duel'' as if it were a sequel. Although it has been said that the content is irrelevant.

Many of these TV dramas are released in theaters, but one that has made its way from TV to movie theaters is director Shunji Iwai's ``Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?'' as if it were a movie. do you see it from the side?” (1993).

Great achievement of becoming the first TV drama to win the Japan Film Directors Association Newcomer Award