Les Misérables (2019)

ALL 01/06/2019 (ja) TV Movie 143 Min
  • Release
    01/06/2019
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    57%
  • Original title
    レ・ミゼラブル 終わりなき旅路
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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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.

  1. Michiko Namiki

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Les Misérables (2019) 143 Min

ALL 01/06/2019 (ja)
TV Movie
  • Release 01/06/2019
  • Production
  • Original title レ・ミゼラブル 終わりなき旅路
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Michiko Namiki

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer