Company: NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation in Association with NHK Educational
Country: JAPAN
Section: DOCUMENTARY – GREAT CHAMPION
Discipline: Surf
Director: Hiromizu Tanaka
Edting: Mariko Masuda
Photo: Takaya Yamada, Humberto Santos
Soundtrack: Kyo Ichinose
Producer: Kuniaki Tsuruya, Tadashi Minezoe, Kenichi Kubo
Running Time: 50 min
SYNOPSYS:
You’ve never seen waves like these. The world record for the “biggest successful surf” is at 24m, the height of an 8-story building. Success means accolades; failure could spell fatal injury. Daredevil professional surfers from around the world gather in Nazare, Portugal, to challenge its monster waves. What drives them on? The program follows the adventurers, featuring awesome images from cameras attached to the surfers and their surfboards. How will this season turn out? Will a new hero or heroine emerge?