Rookies Series + SP + Movie

• Drama: Rookies
• Romaji: Rukizu
• Japanese: ルーキーズ
• Director: Yuichiro Hirakawa, Takeyoshi Yamamoto, Jun Muto, Yuji Nakamae
• Writer: Yoshihiro Izumi, Masanori Morita (manga)
• Network: TBS
• Episode: 11
• Release Date: April 19 – July 28, 2008
• Runtime: Sat. 19:56-20:54
• TV Ratings: 14.96% (weekly average)
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

“Rookies” is the story of a fervent teacher who is trying to straighten his troubled students through high school baseball, and of the students who, although dropouts, are aiming to take part in the “Koshien” championships.

Just like a lot of the young people these days, these students do not have much hope for the future and many do not even know what they want to do. However, Koichi Kawato (Ryuta Sato) is a teacher who is willing to prove that the world is full of hope and that they shouldn’t mock those who do have a dream.

The story takes place at a high school where the baseball team has just been told to suspend their activities because of an incident that occurred during a game. The students are betrayed by their teacher and are forced to take responsibility for the incident. This is when they meet Koichi Kawato, a teacher who believes in having dreams and who would do anything for his students, even if it means risking his job. Through their emotional and heart-to-heart confrontations with this teacher, the students realize that they haven’t and that they do not want to give up their dream.

Notes

1. Based on Masanori Morita’s manga “Rookies,” which ran in “Weekly Shonen Jump” from 1998 to 2003 (24 Volumes).
2. Related titles:
   1. Rookies (TBS / 2008)
   2. Rookies SP (TBS / 2008)
   3. Rookies (2009)

Cast

Ryuta Sato	Hayato Ichihara	Keisuke Koide	Yuu Shirota	Akiyoshi Nakao
Koichi Kawato	Keiichi Aniya	Toru Mikoshiba	Kei Shinjo	Shuta Sekikawa

Sousuke Takaoka	Kenta Kiritani	Takeru Satoh	Shunji Igarashi	Yosuke Kawamura
Tomochika Wakana	Taira Hiratsuka	Yuya Okada	Tetsura Yufune	Kiyooki Hiyama

Hiroyuki Onoue	Eri Murakawa	Hiroyuki Amano	Kazuyuki Asano	Kazue Fukiishi
Shinobu Imaoka	Toko Yagi	Mitsuhide Kakefu	Shunsaku Ikebe	Rie Mayumi

Masato Ibu

Yoshio Murayama

Additional Cast Members:

• Ren Osugi – Akihiro Fujimura
• Anna Nose – Kaoru Fujita
• Kyosuke Yabe – Suji-sensei (football teacher)
• Madoka Matsuda – Miho Ishimine
• Mirai Moriyama – Takumi Harimoto (ep.1-2)
• Haruka Ayase – Kyoko Mikoshiba (ep.1)
• Hisato Izaki – ep.3
• Kazuma Yamane – ep.4
• Yosuke Asari – Katori (ep.4-6)
• Daisuke Sugiura – (ep.4-6)
• Ryuji Yamamoto – (ep.4,9,10)
• Yusuke Kamiji – Hayato Enatsu (ep. 1,6-8,10-11)
• Anna Ishibashi – ep. 1-5
• Hiromasa Taguchi – Kunimatsu (ep.5-6,9-10)
• Ryo Tajima – ep.6,8,10-11
• Ryohei Abe – ep.7-8,9-10
• Tomohiro Kaku – ep. 8
• Ryusuke Nakamura – ep.8
• Takahiro Hojo – ep.9-11
• Kaname Endo – ep. 9-11
• Motoki Fukami – ep. 10-11
• Ikko Furuya – ep.10-11
• Jun Toba – ep. 10-11
• Kazuaki Hankai – ep.10-11
• Sei Hiraizumi – ep.11
• Rin Takanashi – Yukino Inomata (ep1-6,9-11)
• Masakazu Mimura
• Kazuki Ootake
• Masatoshi Hamada
• Aya Kiguchi
• Jyonmyon Pe
• Yuki Ito
• Wakato Kanematsu

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