Les Misérables

This feature drama produced to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fuji TV is an adaptation of Victor Hugos 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 selfdefense 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 selfsupport facility He begins to live at the place and befriends with Takumi Watanabe aspiring to be a lawyer In 1995 the Great HanshinAwaji 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 Takumis identity