2.054 minSeason 1 • Episode 11
LatestHaru Tezuka's parents run a bar in Kamata, Tokyo. She is honest and bright, but she can't lie which sometimes causes her to get in trouble. Haru finds it difficult to get a job. Haru then notices an application guideline from airline company ANA (All Nippon Airways). Haru, who never thought of working in the airline industry, decides to take a test for the airline company. She first attends a company presentation by ANA. There, she sees elite persons who have dreamed of becoming pilots for lengthy periods of time and airplane enthusiasts. She becomes overwhelmed by them. Haru is indecisive about whether she wants to go through with it, but she manages to barely pass her test. Now, Haru wants to become a pilot, but what awaits for her is harsh training.
Acting
Maki Horikita's frantic honesty is physically uncomfortable to watch—in a good way
Production
Actual ANA cooperation = rare authentic aviation training drama
Writing
Haru's inability to lie creates delicious workplace disasters
Creator
Kensaku Sawada
Maki Horikita
Tezuka Haru（手塚 晴）
Saki Aibu
Oda Chisato（小田 千里）
Takumi Saitoh
Konosuke Kunikida（国木田 孝之助）
Nanao
Noriko Suzuki（鈴木 倫子）
Shotaro Mamiya
Taiji Kishii（岸井 泰治）
Ryusei Fujii
Kazuo Yamada（山田 一男）
Hitomi Miyauchi
Suzu Abeno（阿倍野 すず）
Yu Koyanagi
Sho Kotori（小鳥 翔）
Koichi Iwaki
Kazutoyo Shinozaki（篠崎 一豊）
Saburo Ishikura
Shigeo Teduka（手塚 茂雄）
Toshie Negishi
Yoshimi Teduka（手塚 よし美）
Ema Fujisawa
Kanoko Saegusa（三枝 かのこ）
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Maki Horikita's final TV drama role before her shock retirement from acting in 2017—she literally became the impossible underdog who disappeared.
ANA's unprecedented cooperation let them film at actual training facilities, making this one of the most authentic Japanese workplace dramas about aviation—corporate propaganda dressed as inspirational television.
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