Start Line
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Details
- Title: スタートライン ~涙のスプリンター~
- Title (romaji): Start Line ~Namida no Sprinter~
- Title (English): Start Line ~ Sprinter of Tears / Starting Line
- Episodes: 1 Special (96mins)
- Genre: Human Drama
- Air time: Saturday 9:00pm
- Broadcast network: Fuji TV
- Broadcast period: 17 December 2005
- Theme song: Anokane wo Narasu no ha Anata (あの鐘を鳴らすのはあなた) by Wada Akiko (和田アキ子)
Synopsis
Yamada Takayuki and Suzuki Anne are the leads in this TV drama special. The drama entitled Start Line is about an athlete who gets injured and becomes a blind girl's guide during the Para-lympic short distance running event. The story is based on a novel by Kurihara Miwako.
Yamada plays Imai Jun who is expected to take part in the Olympic short distance running event and is raised by his single mother played by Ootake Shinobu. However, during the heat, Imai falls and injures himself just before the goal. As a result, he has to give up his Olympic dream. At the same time, he meets a blind girl, Hitomi, and trains with her so as to be her guide in the Para-lympic (Olympics for the disabled). Just as he re-discovers the joy of running again, Imai finds himself down with an incurable illness.
Cast
- Yamada Takayuki (山田孝之) File:Divider.gif Imai Jun (今井駿, 20)
- Suzuki Anne (鈴木杏) File:Divider.gif Mizushima Hitomi (水嶋瞳, 16)
- Ootake Shinobu (大竹しのぶ) File:Divider.gif Imai Michiyo (今井道代, 45)
- Tokito Saburo (時任三郎) File:Divider.gif Kirino Ryuuji (桐野龍二, 42)
- Suga Kenta (須賀健太) File:Divider.gif Dobashi Nobuhiro (土橋伸宏, 8)
- Tomosaka Rie (ともさかりえ) File:Divider.gif Mizushima Kyouko (水嶋響子)
- Haba Yuuichi (羽場裕一)
- Suzuki Kousuke (鈴木浩介)
- Akiyama Natsuko (秋山菜津子)
Production Credits
- Producer: Kurihara Miwako (栗原美和子)
- Director: Kawake Shun (河毛俊作)
- Screenwriter: Izumi Hiroshi (いずみ吉紘)
- Original Story by: Hara Natsumi (原夏美)