Gaku

The film features Oguri Shun as Shimazaki Sanpo, a seasoned mountaineer and volunteer with a mountain rescue team. Sanpo is passionate about the mountains and is eager for others to share in their beauty, so much so that he never harbors resentment towards those who cause accidents through their own carelessness. Even in the face of a fellow rescuer’s death, he can look at the body and say, “You did your best.” In the spring, a newcomer named Shiina Kumi, played by Nagasawa Masami, joins the mountain rescue team in Nagano prefecture. Under Sanpo’s mentorship and the rigorous training led by the team’s captain, Noda (Sasaki Kuranosuke), she begins to develop her skills. However, she becomes disheartened when she struggles to apply her training in real-life scenarios. As her self-assurance diminishes, a mountain blizzard triggers multiple accidents at once, compelling the entire team to spring into action.