Japanese Drama - Climber's High

* Title: クライマーズ・ハイ
* Title (English): Climber's High
* Format: 2-part tanpatsu
* Genre: Human drama
* Broadcast network: NHK
* Broadcast period: 2005-Dec-10 and 2005-Dec-17
* Air time: Saturday 21:00-22:15

Synopsis

A story of a press reporter who finds the meaning of life through his experiences as a reporter and mountain climbing.

On August 12, 1985, the worst plane crash in the world occurred in Gunma Prefecture. Kazumasa Yuki, a reporter of a local newspaper who happened to have planned to challenge Mount Tanigawa with one of his colleagues on the day, is assigned to take charge of reporting the accident.

In the struggle to cover the chaotic accident scene, he is faced with the significance of life and family ties. Twenty years later, when he is going to retire, Yuki climbs Mount Tanigawa to look back his life. Based on a story by Yokoyama Hideo.

Cast

* Sato Koichi as Yuki Kazumasa
* Matsushige Yutaka as Kishi Bunpei
* Mitsuishi Ken as Tazawa Naoto
* Omori Nao as Sayama Tatsuya
* Arai Hirofumi as Kanzawa Natsuhiko
* Yasui Kenichiro as Mochizuki Ryota
* Okamoto Nobuto as Inaoka Shinya
* Ishii Kenichi as Kameshima Kaku
* Tachibana Yukiko (橘ユキコ)
* Kuon Sayaka (久遠さやか) as Yoda Chizuko
* Akai Hidekazu as Anzai Koichiro
* Kishibe Ittoku as Todoroki Ryuji
* Tanimoto Hajime (谷本一) as Moriya Masashi
* Owada Shinya as Kazuya Nobuteru
* Shiomi Sansei as Tsuimura Tadashi
* Watabiki Katsuhiko as Ito Yasuo
* Sugiura Naoki as President Shirakawa
* Miho Jun as Yuki Yumiko (Kazumasa's wife)
* Kishimoto Kayoko as Anzai Sayuri (Koichiro's wife)
* Takahashi Issei as Anzai Rintaro (Koichiro's son)
* Ishihara Satomi as Mochizuki Ayako (Ryota's cousin)
* Ibu Masato as Suetsugu Isao (Koichiro's mountain climbing friend)
* Terajima Susumu as the mountain climbing instructor
* Nakamura Yuko (中村優子) as the woman of the bereaved
* Yamanaka So

Production Credits

* Screenwriter: Omori Sumio (大森寿美男)
* Directors: Shimizu Kazuhiko (清水一彦), Inoue Go (井上剛)
* Music: Otomo Yoshihide (大友良英)

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