Higa Manami and Fukushi Seiji play a couple in the upcoming FujiTV drama "Bakken Record wo Koete" (Crossing the jumping record) which is due to be shown this winter. The drama is based on a true story which won an award in the 17th FNS Documentary Award and is scheduled to be a commemorative drama to celebrate UHB's 40th anniversary. Fukushi plays a former ski jump athlete Kaneko Yusuke who had aimed to take part in the Winter Olympics but suffered a major head injury during practice. With the help of his wife Hitomi (Higa), he makes an amazing recovery back to the sport.
Filming began in February in Tokyo and Hokkaido and stopped for four months before wrapping up at the end of June. The final scene to be shot was when Hitomi looked on to see her husband participating in a ski jump event again. It was a pity though that the real Hitomi passed away in May at the young age of 37 due to cancer and wasn't able to see the completion of this drama. With regard to this, Higa remarked that they had met Hitomi back in February during the filming and the latter had left a deep impression on everyone then with her smile.
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