Les Misérables (2019)
Overview
This feature drama, produced to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fuji TV, is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic masterpiece Les Miserables set in the 1990s in Japan. In Kobe in 1993, Jun Baba gets taken to a juvenile prison due to a killing of a man who cheated his mother out of all her money in self-defense. One day, he hears that his younger brother, who has been desperately ill, is in a critical condition and breaks out. However, he finds out his brother is already dead. In the depth of despair, he tries to kill himself but is saved by a man who runs a self-support facility. He begins to live at the place, and befriends with Takumi Watanabe aspiring to be a lawyer. In 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake hits and their friendship comes to an end. Crushed under the debris, Takumi persuades Jun to live his life instead. Jun swears to live on assuming Takumi's identity.
Overview
This feature drama, produced to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fuji TV, is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic masterpiece Les Miserables set in the 1990s in Japan. In Kobe in 1993, Jun Baba gets taken to a juvenile prison due to a killing of a man who cheated his mother out of all her money in self-defense. One day, he hears that his younger brother, who has been desperately ill, is in a critical condition and breaks out. However, he finds out his brother is already dead. In the depth of despair, he tries to kill himself but is saved by a man who runs a self-support facility. He begins to live at the place, and befriends with Takumi Watanabe aspiring to be a lawyer. In 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake hits and their friendship comes to an end. Crushed under the debris, Takumi persuades Jun to live his life instead. Jun swears to live on assuming Takumi's identity.
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Release Date
January 06, 2019
Rating
Runtime
2h 23m
Dean Fujioka
Baba Jun
Arata Iura
Saito Ryousuke
Mizuki Yamamoto
Fuwa Yui
Ryo Yoshizawa
Baba Jun (Young)
Nijiro Murakami
Kaya Kiyohara
Kouhei Matsushita
Mayuko Fukuda
Hiroya Shimizu
Daikichi Sugawara
Toshihide Tonesaku
Kinari Hirano
Serena Motola
Kazunori Mimura
Mahiru Koda
Kyoko Hasegawa
Nobuaki Kaneko
Yasuko Tomita
Yasufumi Terawaki
Masatô Ibu
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