"Angel Flight," starring Ryoko Yonekura, which was released worldwide last year and became a hot topic, will be broadcast on NHK's "Saturday Drama" slot (General TV, Saturday 10pm) from May 3rd. The moving story of an international funeral repatriation officer was written by Ryota Kosawa, who also wrote the dramas "Legal High" and "The Confidence Man JP."
This work is a dramatization of "Angel Flight: International Funeral Home Specialist" by Ryoko Sasa, winner of the 10th Kaiko Takeshi Non-Fiction Award. It depicts the activities of international funeral home specialists who transport the bodies of Japanese people who died overseas back to Japan, and foreigners who died in Japan back to their home countries. Yonekura plays Izawa Nami, a strong-willed single mother and company president.
In addition to Yonekura, the cast includes Honoka Matsumoto, Yu Shirota, Yuma Yamoto, Kayo Noro, Yu Tokui, Tamiyo Kusakari, Osamu Mukai, and Kenichi Endo. The drama was re-edited from the work distributed on Amazon Prime Video in 2024 and was broadcast on NHK BS and BS Premium 4K for the first time.
The subtitle of the first episode is "Dreams Shattered in the Slums." The body of Yohei Sugihara (Shono Hayama), who was killed in a gang war in the slums of Manila, is stolen. Nami (Yonekura) and Rinko (Matsumoto) quickly fly to the scene to search for the missing body. Yohei's father, Tatsuhiko (Tetta Sugimoto), says he has no need for the body of his disowned son, and returns to Japan with his wife, Sachie (Yumi Aso).
Nami and Rinko ignore the warnings of the local embassy consul and head into the slums, where they discover the surprising truth behind his death...
