Nankyoku Tairiku ~Kami no Ryouiki ni Idonda Otoko to Inu no Monogatari~ TBS Fall Drama 2010

• Drama: Antarctica (International English title)
• Romaji: Nankyoku Tairiku ~Kami no Ryouiki ni Idonda Otoko to Inu no Monogatari~
• Japanese: 南極大陸〜神の領域に挑んだ男と犬の物語〜
• Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa
• Writer: Kitamura Taiichi (novel), Yoshihiro Izumi
• Producer: Akihiko Ishimaru, Hidenori Iyoda, Yasuhiro Yamada
• Network: TBS
• Episodes: 10
• Release Date: October 16 – December 18, 2011
• Runtime: Sundays 21:00
• TV Ratings: 18.0%
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

Set in the 1950’s, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in Antarctica. After a year, the exploration team is ordered to withdraw from the Antarctic station due to severe weather conditions. The dogs have to be left behind. The following year, the next team arrives at the Showa Base station and a miraculous reunion occurs between a dog handler accompanying the new tean and two dogs, Taro and Shiro, that are brothers.

Notes

1. Drama series “Nankyoku Tairiku” is to commemorate TBS’s 60th anniversary.
2. Story centers around Japan’s first Antarctic research exploration team based at the Showa Station.

Cast

Takuya Kimura	Haruka Ayase	Masato Sakai	Yusuke Yamamoto	Hisashi Yoshizawa
Takeshi Kuramochi	Miyuki Takaoka	Haruhiko Himuro	Natsuo Inuzuka	Shinkichi Yokomine

Yoshinori Okada	Kotaro Shiga	Yosuke Kawamura	Ishimoto Doronzu	Susumu Terajima
Ikuzo Funaki	Kennosuke Tani	Hajime Arashiyama	Manpei Yamasato	Naoto Samejima

Naoto Ogata	Kyohei Shibata	Teruyuki Kagawa	Mana Ashida	Mizuki Inoue
Noriaki Utsumi	Yu Shirasaki	Eitaro Hoshino	Haruka Furutachi	Akira Furutachi

Tae Kimura	Takako Kato	Sakura	Ito Ono	Gaku Yamamoto
Ayako Furutachi	Sumiko Samejima	Naomi Yokomine	Mitsuko Inuzuka	Tomohiro Furutachi

Tsunehiko Watase

Takeshi Kuramochi’s dad

Additional Cast Members:

• Yukie Nakama – Yukari Kuramochi
• Ryuta Sato – Michio Ando
• Kosuke Yabe – Haruo
• Susumu Kurobe – Himuro’s father
• Koichi Miura – Administrative Vice-Minister Okura
• Go Kato – Shigeru Makino (ep.1)
• Takeo Nakahara – Shinpei Hatano (ep.1)
• Yasuto Kosuda – Secretary of Treasury (ep.1)
• Takashi Kobayashi – Yorimichi Mifune (ep.2-3)
• Tomiyuki Kunihiro – Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (ep.2,4)
• Yuzuru Uchida – observation member (ep.10)

Episode Ratings

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