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Yuriko's Picture Book

Yuriko's Picture Book

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 30, 2016

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Drama, History

Original Title

百合子さんの絵本~陸軍武官小野寺夫婦の戦争~

Production Companies

NHK

Director

Yanagawa Tsuyoshi

Description

Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War II. Called the "god of intelligence", Makoto is an intelligence officer of the Russian service of the Japanese Army General Staff. Fluent in Russian and German and trusted by the spies of many countries because of his integrity, his office would eventually become the most important Japanese intelligence post in Europe. From the day of her arrival in Stockholm, Yuriko helps her husband's intelligence activities. She encrypts the highly classified information obtained by Makoto and sends it in coded telegrams to the General Staff Headquarters in Japan every day. Husband and wife have jointly undertaken this intelligence work for confidentiality.