is a 2008

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ese film directed by

Masato Harada is a Japanese film director, film critic, and occasional actor; he is best known to foreign audiences as Omura in '' The Last Samurai'' and as Mr Mita in '' Fearless''. In both his acting roles he portrayed the villain who wants Japan to western ...

. It is an adaptation of the novel '' Seventeen'', titled in Japanese as ''Climber's High'', by Hideo Yokoyama. The film is about a newspaper editor, , (played by

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) who deals with the crash of

Japan Air Lines Flight 123 Japan Air Lines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tokyo to Osaka, Japan. On August12, 1985, the Boeing 747 flying the route suffered a severe structural failure and explosive decompression 12 minutes after takeoff. After f ...

. Yuuki was preparing to set off. Just then (played by

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) came over and said to him: "A 747 seems to have crashed." Then came a news report from a news agency: "Japan Air Lines 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 The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan, established in 1950 by , established under the name of the "Association of Tokyo Film Journalists Award", which was formed mainly by film reporters from th ...

* Best Film * Best Supporting Actor -

References

External links

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Narratives on the World's Worst Plane Crash: Flight JL123 in Print and on Screen

Archive
by Hood, C.P. (2009), Research Seminar Paper, Ref No.7, Cardiff Crimes Narrative Network,

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