gTime Never Stopsh, a special drama produced by TV Asahi as one of the projects celebrating its 55th anniversary, has been honored with two awards this fall: gMIPCOM Buyerfs Award for Japanese Dramah and the Grand Prix of Single Drama at the gInternational Drama Festival in Tokyoh.
The drama portrays the destruction and resurrection of a family that underwent the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011. The script written by Taichi Yamada, a representative scriptwriter in Japan, together with heart gripping performances of an all-star cast including Kiichi Nakai have made the drama into an absolute gem as family drama.
gMIPCOM Buyerfs Awardh is selected by the buyers attending MIPCOM from all over the world under the criterion of gthe content that I want to broadcast in my country the mosth. Awards at the gInternational Drama Festivalh are given to a quality Japanese drama that has a high potential for international distribution.
It is indeed a great pleasure and honor for us at TV Asahi to have our drama that challenged a very grave theme of ga recovery from unprecedented catastropheh receive such high evaluation both in Japan and abroad. We will continue to offer high caliber and high quality contents to the world.