Les Misérables
レ・ミゼラブル 終わりなき旅路
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.
Cast
Serena Motola
Mahiru Koda
Yasufumi Terawaki
Eiji Okuda
Dean Fujioka
as Baba Jun
Kouhei Matsushita
Mayuko Fukuda
Daikichi Sugawara
Toshihide Tonesaku
Yasuko Tomita
Karina
Hiroya Shimizu
Kazunori Mimura
Kyoko Hasegawa
Rino Katase
Ryo Yoshizawa
as Baba Jun (Young)
Kaya Kiyohara
Kinari Hirano
Nobuaki Kaneko
Masatô Ibu
Arata Iura
as Saito Ryousuke
Mizuki Yamamoto
as Fuwa Yui
Nijiro Murakami
