JAKARTA - Sugako Hashida, the scriptwriter behind the legendary Japanese television drama "Oshin" has passed away. Hashida died at the age of 95 from lymphoma.
Since the beginning of this year, Hashida has been treated for the disease. She died on Sunday, April 4 at her residence in Atami in western Tokyo. This was revealed by Pinko Izumi, an actress who often appears in various drama series written by Sugako Hashida, including "Oshin".
"I told her 'Mama', then she opened her eyes for a moment, then she fell asleep", said Pinko in an interview, as reported by Kyodonews, Wednesday, April 7.
Sugako Hashida was born in Korea in 1925 when Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula. Sugako then moved to Japan in the late 1930s and lived in Osaka.
She decided to work at the Shochiku film studio in 1949 before becoming a scriptwriter for various television drama series. One of them is "Oshin" which aired from 1983-1984 on the NHK television station.
"Oshin" is a fictional story based on the biography of a Japanese woman who has successfully founded a famous supermarket chain. Oshin tells the story of the main character's life struggles, from her bitter childhood to the last moments of her life in the 1980s.
Oshin is broadcast in more than 60 countries, including Indonesia. The drama series "Oshin" has been broadcast since November 1986 on TVRI. The series "Oshin" which consists of 297 episodes is one of the best Japanese television dramas of that time.
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