Waseda University

1953HD

In the 15th year of the Meiji era (1882), Ōkuma Shigenobu, expelled from the Council of State by the Satsuma-Chōshō clique, poured his personal fortune into establishing the Tokyo Professional School in a tea field in Waseda Village. With seven professors, including Takada Sanae and Tsubouchi Yūzō, and eighty-seven students, government interference extended even to finances; Ono Azusa, who tirelessly worked to secure funding, died from overwork.

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa, Shizue Natsukawa, Yūnosuke Itō, Ryutaro Otomo, Eijirō Tōno, Kinzō Shin, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Shin Tokudaiji