Roosevelt Game TBS Spring Drama 2013

• Drama: Roosevelt Game
• Romaji: Ruzuveruto Gemu
• Japanese: ルーズヴェルト・ゲーム
• Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa, Takayoshi Tanazawa, Kenta Tanaka
• Writer: Jun Ikeido (novel), Hiroyuki Yatsu
• Network: TBS
• Episodes: 9
• Release Date: April 27 – June 22, 2014
• Runtime: Sundays 21:00-21:54
• TV Ratings: 14.5% (weekly average)
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

The Aoshima Company is a precision machine maker, located in the suburbs of Tokyo. The company is a medium sized corporation. The have a conference once every week to report achievements made and the prospects for the company. At the conference, President Mitsuru Hosokawa (Toshiaki Karasawa) gives a menacing look, while executives shout at each other. After President Mitsuru took his job, the economy significantly worsened due to a financial sector slump. The Aoshima Company suffered because of this and faces difficulties.

President Mitsuru then tells executives to abolish the baseball team. The executives are shocked. President Mitsuru informs the executives that he has heard the bank may cancel their loan from the next session. To show the bank that they are trying to improve their situation he has decided to cancel the baseball team. The baseball team needs 300 million yen to exist. Their baseball team was once well regarded, but they re now a burden to the company.

President Mitsuru must persuade the Chairman and Founder of the company Takeshi Aoshima (Tsutomu Yamazaki) before he can abolish the baseball team. He goes to talk with Chairman Takeshi. The Chairman asks President Mitsuru “do you have  ‘ism’ as a company president? If you want to fire people, you need to have ‘ism’ as a company president.” President Mitsuru tells him that he doesn’t have ‘ism’ right now, but no matter what he will protect the Aoshima Company. That is his ‘ism.’

A bigger crisis ensues.

Notes

1. Based on the novel “Ruzuveruto Gemu” by Jun Ikeido (published February 22, 2012 by Kodansha Ltd.).
2. Directors Katsuo Fukuzawa, Takayoshi Tanazawa, screenwriter Hiroyuki Yatsu and novelist Jun Ikeido previously collaborated on 2013 TBS mega-hit drama series “Hanzawa Naoki“.

Cast

Toshiaki Karasawa	Rei Dan	Kanji Ishimaru	Asuka Kudo	Seiji Rokkaku
Mitsuru Hosokawa	Arisa Nakamoto	Fumio Mikami	Kazuya Okihara	Makoto Asahina

Toru Tezuka	Kazuya Kojima	Akira Yamamoto	Kazuya Takahashi	Yasuto Kosuda
Masaomi Daido	Taichi Toyooka	Kenichi Kamiyama	Tetsu Koga	Atsushi Nakagawa

Kenji Moriwaki	Masato Wada	Nobuyuki Suzuki	Alice Hirose	Makita Sports
Saburo Murano	Inuhiko Kitaohji	Kazuma Kisaragi	Misato Yamazaki	Kazuyuki Nagato

Ryuta Mine	Danshun Tatekawa	Rio Hirai	Teruyuki Kagawa	Yosuke Eguchi
Bank Branch Manager Isobe	Masahiko Bando	Shiho Hanabusa	Kiyofumi Morota	Kotaro Sasai

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Takeshi Aoshima

Additional Cast Members:

• Yuki Sato – Yonosuke Saruda
• Toru Baba – Tomohiko Manda
• Ryo Katayama – Shuichi Furuki
• Takashi Kitadai – Ippei Kurahashi
• Yuhei Ouchida – Hisayoshi Shimano
• Makita Sports – Ikkou Nagato
• Umi Yamano – Sayo Hashizume
• Tsuyoshi Hayashi – Kenta Iijima
• Kunihiro Suda – Kosaku Isaka
• Ryuta Mine – Branch Manager Isobe
• Mitsugoro Bando – Tatsugoro Bito
• Ichirota Miyagawa – Kikuo Hayashi (ep.1)
• Masahiro Toda – Minakami (ep.1)
• Keisuke Yamamoto – Tagawa (ep.1)
• Takayuki Hirata – ep.1
• Ken Aoki – Nakanishi (ep.1-2)
• Yoshiki Arizono – Takemoto (ep.2)
• Takehiro Kimoto – Makoto Hayami (ep.2-3)
• You Takahashi – Shinya Nishifuji (ep.2,6)
• Yukijiro Hotaru – Takashi (ep.3)
• Jundai Yamada – Masayuki Otsuki (ep.5-7,9)
• Taro Suruga – Hideo Sawaki (ep.6)
• Hideo Sakaki – Sasaki (ep.6)
• Takeshi Onishi – Shinichi Yano (ep.6,8-9)
• Judy Ongg – Shima Kido (ep.7)
• Yukiya Kitamura – Kengo Takehara (ep.7-8)

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