Drama: The Eternal Zero
Romaji: Eien no Zero
Japanese: 永遠の0
Director: Akimitsu Sasaki
Writer: Naoki Hyakuta (novel), Takeharu Sakurai
Network: TV Tokyo
Episodes: 3
Release Date: February 11 - February 15, 2015
Runtime:
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
60 years after World War II, Keiko and her younger brother Kentaro begin a search on their grandfather's, Kyuzo Miyabe's (Osamu Mukai), life. Keiko is a freelancer journalist and Kentaro is soon to take his bar exam.
During their research, they learn that other people that knew their grandfather view him as a coward. Their grandfather believed life was the most important thing. He was also a talented pilot during the war.
Through their search, Keiko and Kentaro become confused on why their grandfather Kyuzo Miyabe boarded the Zero fighter plane and lost his life, even though he desperately wanted to come back home alive to see his daughter. Keiko and Kentaro begin to learn the truth.
Notes
Based on the novel "Eien no Zero" by Naoki Hyakuta (published by Ohta Publishing Company, August 24, 2006).
Related titles:
The Eternal Zero | Eien no Zero (2013)
The Eternal Zero | Eien no Zero (TV Tokyo / 2015)
Cast
Wartime
Osamu Mukai as Kyuzo Miyabe
Mikako Tabe as Matsuno
Akiyoshi Nakao as Umeo Hasegawa
Seiji Chihara as Kanji Ito
Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Genjiro Izaki
Hideo Ishiguro as Minoru Koyama
Yu Sawabe as Shino Higa
Kento Kaku as Kiyotaka Nagai
Yuta Kanai as Masao Tanigawa
Takayuki Kinoshita as Commanding Officer Taisa
Asuka Kudo as Takanori Takeda
Kensuke Owada as Manabu Muto
Matsuya Onoe as Kaizan Kageura
Dai Watanabe as Yasuhiko Murata
Aoi Nakamura as Kenichiro Ooishi
Konomi Watanabe a sKiyoko
Present Day
Kenta Kiritani as Kenta Kiritani
Ryoko Hirosue as Keiko Saeki
Atsuko Takahata as Kiyoko Saeki
Shiro Ito as Ichiro Ken
Takashi Sasano as Umeo Hasegawa
Masane Tsukayama as Kanji Ito
Masaomi Kondo as Genjiro Izaki
Katsuya Kobayashi as Kiyotaka Nagai
Makiya Yamaguchi as Ryuji Takayama
Taizo Harada as Shuichi Fujiki
Renji Ishibashi as Masao Tanigawa
Kei Yamamoto as Takanori Takeda
Akira Emoto as Kaizan Kageura
Raita Ryu as Yasuhiko Murata