Pride [J-Drama] (Kimura Takuya, Takeuchi Yuko)
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- Title: プライド
- Title (English): Pride
- Genre: Sports, Human drama
- Episodes: 11
- Viewership ratings: 25.1
- Broadcasted network: Fuji TV
- Broadcast period: 2004-Jan-12 to 2004-Mar-22
- Theme song: I Was Born To Love You by Queen
Synopsis
Halu (Kimura Takuya) is the captain and star player of an ice hockey team, who is greatly respected by his teammates. For him, hockey is serious business that fully occupies his mind, while he treats romance as if it were a game.
Aki (Takeuchi Yuko) is a typical OL (office lady), and is waiting for her boyfriend to return from studying architecture abroad. At this point in time however, he shows no sign of coming back. One day, Aki’s friends who are determined to find her a new boyfriend, invite her to watch an ice hockey game. There she sees Halu for the first time.
After the game, Aki and her friends join the players for a party celebrating their victory. Yuko, however, is not so excited to be there. When she leaves the party, she bumps into Halu, who was slightly injured from a fight. They exchange e-mail addresses and part.
The sparks of mutual attraction are ignited in a second encounter between Aki and Halu, arranged with the help of her friends shortly after a party.
Hyodo (Sato Koichi) has come as a replacement for the team’s coach who has been hospitalized. Halu has a lot of respect for the hospitalized coach. Unfortunately, he can’t stand Hyodo’s way of doing things. Bringing with him a lot of coaching experience from overseas, Hyodo criticizes the former coach’s strategies. Whenever Halu and Hyodo see each other, they get into a quarrel; consequently influencing Halu’s behavior during games.
Seeing that his game ended in a brawl, Aki visits Halu to comfort him. But he tells her that she is being too friendly with him.
Aki is hurt, Halu is irritated, and his teammate Hotta (Sakaguchi Kenji) can’t stand seeing Kimura like this…
Cast
- Kimura Takuya as Satonaka Halu
- Takeuchi Yuko as Murase Aki
- Sakaguchi Kenji as Hotta Yamato
- Ichikawa Somegoro as Ikegawa Tomonori
- Sato Ryuta as Shimamura Makoto
- Nakagoshi Noriko as Aizawa Yuri
- Megumi as Ishikawa Chika
- Ishida Yuriko as Yoko
- Sato Koichi as Hyodo Yuichiro
- Takizawa Saori as Sonoda Saeko
- Namioka Kazuki as Nishida Naritoshi
- Tokito Saburo as Anzai (ep1)
- Mizukawa Asami (ep4)
- Kazama Morio (ep5)
- Yamaguchi Miyako (ep5)
- Matsuzaka Keiko as Halu’s mom (ep6)
- Tanihara Shosuke (ep7-11)
- Arai Hirofumi
99+ SP (2008.03.26) [Ueto Aya - Sakaguchi Kenji - Ito Atsushi]
Guests
上戸彩 (Ueto Aya)
ハリセンボン (Harisenbon)
森三中 (Morisanchuu)
パンプキンズ (Pumpkins)
坂口憲二 (Sakaguchi Kenji)
長谷川理恵 (Hasegawa Rie)
伊藤淳史 (Itou Atsushi)
Iryu 2 [J-drama] (Sakaguchi Kenji, Koike Teppei) + OST
- Episodes:
- Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-11 to 2007-Dec
- Air time: Thursday 22:00
- Theme song: ONE by AI
Synopsis
In Iryu 2, Asada Ryutaro wages a new battle against the realities of Japan’s medical care system. The government has drafted legislation to tackle the recent inflation of medical fees; hospitals have entered an era in which they will go bankrupt if they aren’t independently run. At the same time, hospital mergers and takeovers are also taking place. Additionally, the obstetrics and pediatrics departments are being closed in succession, and there are inadequate doctors in the region - issues that are closely related to these hospital management problems. Now, hospitals, like the average corporation, face collapse if they are not profitable. — jade_frost, drama wiki
Cast
- Sakaguchi Kenji as Asada Ryutaro
- Koike Teppei as Ijyuuin Noboru
- Sasaki Kuranosuke as Fujiyoshi Keishi
- Kitamura Kazuki as Kirima Gunji
- Abe Sadao as Arase Monji
- Mizukawa Asami as Satohara Miki
- Kishibe Ittoku as Noguchi Keno