Climber's High (film)

Climber's High
Climber's High
	Poster
Directed by	Masato Harada
Starring	Shin'ichi Tsutsumi; Masato Sakai; Machiko Ono; Masahiro Takashima; Tsutomu Yamazaki
Release date	July 5, 2008;
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Climber's High (クライマーズ・ハイ, Kuraimāzu Hai) is a 2008 Japanese film directed by Masato Harada. It is an adaptation of the novel Seventeen, titled in Japanese as Climber's High, by Hideo Yokoyama.^[1]

The film is about a newspaper editor, Kazumasa Yuuki (悠木和雅, Yūki Kazumasa), (played by Shin'ichi Tsutsumi) who deals with the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123.

Yuuki was preparing to set off. Just then Tatsuya Sayama (佐山達哉, Sayama Tatsuya) (played by Masato Sakai) came over and said to him: "A 747 seems to have crashed." Then came a news report from a news agency: "Japan Airlines Flight 123, flying from Haneda Airport to Osaka, disappeared from the radar screen dozens of kilometers northwest of Yokota Base." 520 lives disappeared in an instant. Can the typeface in the newspaper bear the weight of life? Whether to choose moral sympathy or ruthless truth, news reporting faces the most difficult dilemma.

Faced with exclusive inside news, Yuuki, who was in extreme condition, made a decision resolutely.

Accolades

51st Blue Ribbon Awards^[2]

Best Film
Best Supporting Actor - Masato Sakai

References

^ "Climber's High". The Japan Times. July 11, 2008. Archived from the original on April 20, 2018. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
^ 第51回ブルーリボン賞 (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2010-01-19.