Yuriko's Picture Book

Yuriko's Picture Book

90 mins | Drama, History | July 30, 2016

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.

Yuriko's Picture Book

90 mins | Drama, History | July 30, 2016

Yuriko's Picture Book
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.
Producers NHK
Original title 百合子さんの絵本~陸軍武官小野寺夫婦の戦争~
Directors Yanagawa Tsuyoshi
Writers Shunsaku Ikehata

Cast

Hiroko Yakushimaru

as Yuriko Onodera

Teruyuki Kagawa

as Shin Onodera

Nathalie Söderqvist

as German Spy

Tetsuya Chiba

as Usui

Dasha Teranishi

as Karin Chessler

Clara Kallenius

as civil woman

Go Riju

as