Details
Title: 天国と地獄
Title (Romaji): Tengoku to Jigoku
Also known as: High and Low
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: Thriller
Viewership rating: 20.3
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast date: 2007-Sep-08
Air time: Saturday 21:00-23:36
Synopsis
Sato Koichi plays an executive of a shoe manufacturing company, whose chauffeur's son gets kidnapped because the child was mistaken for his own son. -- Tokyograph
Cast
Sato Koichi as Gondo Kingo
Suzuki Kyoka as Gondo Reiko
Abe Hiroshi as Chief Detective Tokura
Tsumabuki Satoshi
Ibu Masato
Sugimoto Tetta
Anne
Tsugawa Masahiko
Honda Hirotaro
Hirata Mitsuru
Ozawa Yukiyoshi
Hashizume Isao
Musaka Naomasa
Taguchi Hiromasa
Sasai Eisuke
Fukiishi Kazue
Imura Kumi
Izumiya Shigeru
Kamiya Ryota (神谷涼太)
Matsuda Takahiro (松田昂大)
Production Credits
Original writing: Evan Hunter King's Ransom (novel)
Screenwriter: Tsuruhashi Yasuo
Producers: Kuroda Tetsuya, Kohashi Satoko (小橋智子), Ogoe Kozo (小越浩造)
Director: Tsuruhashi Yasuo
Music: Nakanishi Kyo
Awards
1st Tokyo Drama Awards: Best Actor - Sato Koichi
Notes
The drama is based on the 1963 film of the same name by Akira Kurosawa.
One famous scene from the original film, in which the ransom is delivered on a bullet train, was re-created for the drama.
