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''The Man in the High Castle'' is an American dystopian alternate history television series produced by Amazon Studios, Scott Free, Headline Pictures and Electric Shepherd Productions. The series is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. The story is an alternate history of the world in which the Axis powers won World War II. The United States has been partitioned into three parts: The Japanese puppet state of the ''Pacific States of America'', which comprises the former United States west of the Rocky Mountains; a Nazi puppet state that comprises the eastern half of the former United States; and a neutral zone that acts as a buffer between the two areas, called the ''Rocky Mountain States''. The pilot debuted on January 15, 2015 and was Amazon's "most-watched since the original series development program began."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Man in the High Castle )〕 On February 18, 2015, the series was picked up for a ten-episode season. The remaining nine episodes were released November 20, 2015. == Synopsis == The central characters are Juliana Crain, Frank Frink, Joe Blake, John Smith and Nobusuke Tagomi, and the series takes place in 1962. Juliana Crain is a San Francisco woman whose half-sister Trudy has just been killed almost in front of her by the Kempeitai. Just before she dies she hands Juliana a film reel that contains newsreel style footage depicting an alternate history in which the Allies won World War II and Germany and Japan were defeated. The film is entitled ''The Grasshopper Lies Heavy'', and is part of a series of similar newsreels being collected by someone referred to as "The Man in the High Castle". Juliana believes the newsreel reflects some sort of alternate reality, and that it is part of some kind of larger truth about how the world should be. Her boyfriend, Frank Frink (who keeps his Jewish roots hidden in order to avoid extradition and death at the hands of the Nazis), believes that the newsreel has no relation to real-life events. Juliana learns Trudy was carrying the film to Canon City, Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain States, where she was going to meet someone. Juliana decides to travel there in Trudy's place to find out what her half-sister's mission was. When she arrives in Canon City, she encounters Joe Blake. Blake is a 27-year-old New Yorker who seeks out the resistance in order to volunteer to help them, purportedly as an effort to continue his patriotic father's legacy. However, he is secretly an agent working for the Nazis. After contacting and being accepted by the resistance he agrees to drive a truck full of "coffeemakers" to Canon City from New York, where he will make contact with another resistance member. In Canon City he enters a diner and befriends Juliana, who has been waiting there in hopes of meeting Trudy's contact. Meanwhile, in New York, the resistance men Blake earlier met are seized and tortured to death by the Nazis, headed by Obergruppenführer John Smith. Though the resistance members do not talk the Nazis already know that the truck dispatched by the resistance is going to Canon City, and why, which hints that it might be a trap. Nobusuke Tagomi is a high-ranking Japanese official in San Francisco. He meets in secret with Nazi official Rudolph Wegener, who is traveling incognito as Swedish businessman Victore Baynes. Tagomi and Wegener are concerned about the power vacuum that will exist when the Reich's Führer Adolf Hitler dies, or is forced to step down due to his worsening Parkinson's disease. Wegener explains that Hitler's successor will want to use the Reich's nuclear bombs against Japan in order to gain control of the rest of the former United States. Currently, however, Japan and the Third Reich are engaged in a cold war full of tension but no open warfare, with the Japanese starting to lag behind the Germans technologically. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Man in the High Castle (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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