One of the photos taken by the late Kotoyuki Okano and used as a reference for the laboratory scene of the movie "Gift of Fire"
I had copies of them and provided them to NHK via Akira Masaike.
Photo: Copyright © 1960 by Kotoyuki Okano.
1944〜45 年に京都帝国大学理学部・荒勝文策教授の研究室において、海軍の資金で原子爆弾に関わる初歩的研究が行われていた。このことに基づいて作られたドラマ『太陽の子 (Gift of Fire)』が、昨 2020 年 8 月 15 日に NHK で放送され、その映画版が今年 8 月 6 日から上映されている。配役は同じで、インターネット上に見られる説明では、主に異なるのは最後のシーンだけのようである。
『荒勝文策と原子核物理学の黎明』の著者・政池明氏と私は共に荒勝教授の後任・木村毅一教授の下で学んだ。政池氏は先年、NHK の人から荒勝・木村研究室関連の資料を求められているとして、私にも相談があった。私はその時、木村研究室の実験室写真のコピー 2 枚を彼に送っておいた（故・岡野事行氏が撮影したもので、上掲の写真はその1枚）。その後、NHK からそれが参考になったという連絡があったと、彼から聞いた。
写真が参考にされた場面は、ドラマでは気づかなかった。しかし今回、YouTube で紹介されている "映画『太陽の子』研究室の一幕編" を見て、それが分かった。下掲のビデオの 26〜28 秒目は、コッククロフト・ウォルトン型加速器の下にある測定室の場面で、ビーム導管や電磁石が見える。それらの配置が上掲の写真に似ているのである。ただし、写真と映画の場面では左右が逆に見えている。
測定室場面の中央にいる研究者は、三浦誠己が演じる木戸貴一助教授で、若い時代の木村毅一教授をモデルとしている。
From 1944 to 1945, in the laboratory of Professor Bunsaku Arakatsu, Faculty of Science, Kyoto Imperial University, they conducted rudimentary research on the atomic bomb with the funds of the Navy. The drama "Gift of Fire" based on this matter was broadcast on NHK on August 15, 2020, and its movie version has been screened since August 6 this year. Casting is the same. From the explanations found on the internet, the main difference between the two versions seems to be only in the last scene.
Both Akira Masaike, the author of "Bunsaku Arakatsu and the Dawn of Nuclear Physics," and I studied under Professor Kiichi Kimura, the successor to Professor Arakatsu. A few years ago, Masaike consulted with me, saying that NHK asked him materials related to the Arakatsu/Kimura laboratory. Then, I sent the copies of two photos of the experimental room in Kimura Laboratory to him (the late Kotoyuki Okano took them, the image of one of which is shown above). After that, I heard from Masaike that those were helpful to NHK.
In the drama version, I did not notice which scene was based on the photos. Recently, however, I saw the video (quoted below) about the partial story in the laboratory of Gift of Fire on YouTube and was able to identify it. The cuts in the 26th to 28th seconds of the video show the inside of the measurement room. The room is under the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator and includes beam ducts and an electromagnet. The arrangement of them is similar to that in the above picture. Note that the left and right are reversed in the photo and movie scene.
The researcher at the center in the scene of the measurement room is Assistant Professor Kiichi Kido, played by Masaki Miura and modeled on Professor Kiichi Kimura in his young days.
『荒勝文策と原子核物理学の黎明』の著者・政池明氏と私は共に荒勝教授の後任・木村毅一教授の下で学んだ。政池氏は先年、NHK の人から荒勝・木村研究室関連の資料を求められているとして、私にも相談があった。私はその時、木村研究室の実験室写真のコピー 2 枚を彼に送っておいた（故・岡野事行氏が撮影したもので、上掲の写真はその1枚）。その後、NHK からそれが参考になったという連絡があったと、彼から聞いた。
写真が参考にされた場面は、ドラマでは気づかなかった。しかし今回、YouTube で紹介されている "映画『太陽の子』研究室の一幕編" を見て、それが分かった。下掲のビデオの 26〜28 秒目は、コッククロフト・ウォルトン型加速器の下にある測定室の場面で、ビーム導管や電磁石が見える。それらの配置が上掲の写真に似ているのである。ただし、写真と映画の場面では左右が逆に見えている。
測定室場面の中央にいる研究者は、三浦誠己が演じる木戸貴一助教授で、若い時代の木村毅一教授をモデルとしている。
From 1944 to 1945, in the laboratory of Professor Bunsaku Arakatsu, Faculty of Science, Kyoto Imperial University, they conducted rudimentary research on the atomic bomb with the funds of the Navy. The drama "Gift of Fire" based on this matter was broadcast on NHK on August 15, 2020, and its movie version has been screened since August 6 this year. Casting is the same. From the explanations found on the internet, the main difference between the two versions seems to be only in the last scene.
Both Akira Masaike, the author of "Bunsaku Arakatsu and the Dawn of Nuclear Physics," and I studied under Professor Kiichi Kimura, the successor to Professor Arakatsu. A few years ago, Masaike consulted with me, saying that NHK asked him materials related to the Arakatsu/Kimura laboratory. Then, I sent the copies of two photos of the experimental room in Kimura Laboratory to him (the late Kotoyuki Okano took them, the image of one of which is shown above). After that, I heard from Masaike that those were helpful to NHK.
In the drama version, I did not notice which scene was based on the photos. Recently, however, I saw the video (quoted below) about the partial story in the laboratory of Gift of Fire on YouTube and was able to identify it. The cuts in the 26th to 28th seconds of the video show the inside of the measurement room. The room is under the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator and includes beam ducts and an electromagnet. The arrangement of them is similar to that in the above picture. Note that the left and right are reversed in the photo and movie scene.
The researcher at the center in the scene of the measurement room is Assistant Professor Kiichi Kido, played by Masaki Miura and modeled on Professor Kiichi Kimura in his young days.
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