The Breakthrough Files

Episode 149 (1x149)

Air date: Jul 20, 2023

In the "Narrow Escape" episode, a boy drowns in a river, revealing the dangers of summer leisure activities. While fishing in a mountain stream with his grandfather, played by Nishikigoi, he slips on a rock at the bottom of the river and is swept away. A female university student, played by Honda Hitomi of AKB48, joins in and they go to rescue him, but the boy keeps drifting further and further away, and even using a cooler box as a lifebuoy and a fishing rod to pull him back, they have little success. What is the revolutionary method to save the boy who is losing consciousness from hypothermia?