Marathon

Sep 20, 2007

1h 50m

★ 7.5

Overview

Remake of the 2005 South Korean movie "Marathon", this special is about an autistic boy guided by his mother and his coach in training for a marathon.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

TBS

Marathon Trailers

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Cast

Shôtarô Miyata

Kazunari Ninomiya

Nobuaki Miyata

Takashi Naito

Harue Miyata

Misako Tanaka

Yoji Noguchi

Masahiro Matsuoka

Sanae Okamura

Sachiko Sakurai

Shôtarô Miyata (young)

Fumiki Yoshikawa

Akio Kaneda

Hajime Yamazaki

Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Marie hasn't forgotten her hopes of wealth and with this aim still in mind she pushes Marcel into becoming the swimming instructor of Achille Zopoulos, an oil tycoon.

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