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| - Sky High(スカイハイSukai Hai) (also known as Skyhigh) is a live-action, supernatural Japanese television drama series, starring actress and model, Yumiko Shaku. It aired in Japan, first run, from 2003 to 2004, and was popular enough to spawn the 2003 feature film of the same name (produced while the series was still in production and starring the same actress). Both are based on the Japanese manga, Skyhigh. Shaku stars as Izuko, the Guardian of the Gate to the afterlife.
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| - Izuko helps Maruka, a troubled teenaged soul, investigate her own death, after her body is discovered buried in a junior high school time capsule after twenty-one years. Was it an accident or murder?
- Izuko encounters a businessman who dies in the midst of a sex worker scandal rocking his company. Guest Stars: Leo Morimoto, Mirai Yamamoto More. Director: Shinohara Tetsuo
- Izuko is presented with the irony of a man who died a hero, saving the life a woman attacked by thugs. The irony is that he was in the right place at the right time only because he is a voyeur--and now Izuko must help him deal with the emotional turmoil of his own sins. Guest Stars: Okada Yoshinori, Suzuki 砂羽 More. Director: Asou Manabu.
- Izuko finds herself helping Valentine’s Day lovers find happiness in the face of tragedy. Guest Stars: 也実 Arimori, Kondou Yoshimasa More. Director: Tsuruta Norio
- Izuko offers a dead boxer a second chance at winning the Sendo Champion title.
- Mina is a beautiful bride-to-be when she becomes the victim of a grotesque series of supernatural killings—her heart cut right out of her chest. As her distraught groom, a Tokyo cop, vengefully attempts to find her killer, Mina finds herself in an underworld of spirits and demons. Guided by Izuko, Guardian of the Gate to the afterlife, she is presented three choices on how to proceed. However, her path takes an entirely unexpected journey when Izuko is defeated by a demon in a katana-wielding duel to the death. In her dying breath, Izuko bequeaths Mina the Sword of the Guardian of the Gate. Soon, Mina is forced to face her demonic killer in battle. Defeating him, she becomes the new Izuko, Guardian of the Gate—just as we see her in the TV series. [Movie is Rated R for violence, gore, and coarse language.]
- The trilogy whodunit concludes with Izuko and Anna discovering a shocking truth behind Anna's murder in the pages of a cryptic novel. Guest Stars: Yamada Maiko, Shiro Sano, Akiyoshi Kumiko, and Mamoru Ren. Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
- Criminal defense attorney Asakura Iori is fighting to prove her client’s innocence of murder, when she, herself, is stabbed to death outside the courthouse. With Izuko’s help, Iori must now solve the crime from beyond the grave—all while dealing with her own desire for vengeance…and risk facing the gates of Hell.
- When a family is ripped apart by a fatal drunk driving accident, Izuko must help them come to terms with what has happened—and the afterlife that awaits them.
- Izuko helps an Olympic hopeful, killed in a fire, aid the success and encouragement of another athlete injured in that same fire.
- Yumiko Shaku stars as Izuko, a beautiful and mysterious Guardian of the Gate to the afterlife. Her role is to guide the dead with three choices. 1) Accept death as it is and proceed to Heaven. 2) Not accept their death and continue wondering the earth as a ghost. 3) Undo a wrong or curse done unto you, but face the consequences. Her first visitor is a young woman, Sekikawa Noriko , whose body was found along a river under suspicious circumstances. Izuko allows Noriko to investigate the circumstances of her death. What Noriko discovers is shocking. Guest Stars: Kimi Yoshi Yoshino, Sakai Masato, Yuka Itaya More. Director: Nakahara Takashi.
- Izuko helps Anna find answers in the midst of a treacherous and dangerous intrigue involving a headless corpse. Director: Takatsu Takakazu.
- At the Gates, Izuko encounters Rie, a murdered housewife perplexed by her death and the suspicious state of her marriage—leaving Rie to contemplate a vengeful murder of her own. Can Izuko stop her from making the wrong decision?
- Izuko must help a young woman found murdered in the trunk of a car determine what happened. Guest Stars: Saki Kagami, Morimoto Ryouzi More. Director: Nakahara Takashi
- In the build up to the season finale, Izuko becomes overwhelmed by Anna’s plight as DNA proves Anna’s true parentage. Guest Star: Yamada Maiko. Directed by: Ryuhei Kitamura, Takatsu Takakazu
- An aspiring rock star who dies has one final song to sing. Guest Stars: Toba Zyun, Suzuki Kazuma. Director: Shinohara Tetsuo
- Actress Kaori Akira Takashi meets Izuko, Guardian of the Gate, having died after a two year comma. Kaori had been at the height of her career when she fell from a building during a rehearsal. Now, a rival actress revels in the spotlight which should have been hers.
- A teenaged woman, Sora, is murdered during a home invasion, along with her parents. Izuko faces one of her toughest decisions in guiding this lost girl, cut down in her prime.
- While guarding the Gate to the afterlife, Izuko is puzzled by the untimely arrival of a psychic woman…who isn’t dead yet.
- An exchange student is the victim of bullying. Izuko must convince her not to seek revenge. Guest Stars: Niiyama Tiharu, Tanaka Tie. Director: Asou Manabu
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