Preview of "Chicken Race" - Autumn 2013

Title: Chicken Race
Official website: here
O.A. Date: 10 Nov 2013, Sunday 9pm
Broadcast by: WOWOW
Scriptwriter: Okada Yoshikazu
Cast: Terao Akira, Okada Masaki, Arimura Kasumi, Matsuzaka Tori, Kaga Takeshi, Matsuzaka Keiko
First WOWOW drama to be shot in Full HD format and screened in full high vision quality
Story: Kamiya Takeshi (Okada Masaki) who has been raised in a family doctors and aspires to be one himself, fails the entrance exams for medical school repeatedly despite his efforts. Disappointed and being unable to face his father Tsukasa (Kaga Takeshi), Takeshi leaves his family home in Tokyo and becomes a nurse. He gets assigned to take care of a patient Hida Ryo (Tera Akira) who has been in a coma for 45 years after the latter met with an accident at the age of 19. Takeshi keeps pouring out his inner thoughts and complaints to Hida who doesn't respond at all but he suddenly comes to one day.
Hida who used to be a juvenile delinquent at the age of 19, manages to recover physically over time. However, when he finds out who has been paying his medical bills for the past 45 years, Hida then agrees to be a research subject at Tsukasa's hospital. At the same time, a strange relationship develops between the 27-year-old Takeshi and 64-year-old Hida. This then leads Takeshi to bring Hida out of hospital without permission and they embark on a trip to search for Hida's lost youth over the last 45 years...