- Drama: Water Polo Yankees (literal title)
- Romaji: Suikyu Yankisu
- Japanese: 水球ヤンキース
- Director: Shogo Miyaki
- Writer: Yuichi Tokunaga, Saya Matsuda
- Network: Fuji TV
- Episodes: 10
- Release Date: July 12 – September 20, 2014
- Runtime: Saturdays 23:10-23:55
- TV Ratings: 6.6% (weekly average)
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Naoya Inaba (Yuto Nakajima) grew up abroad. From his childhood experience, he thought “yankees” were the strongest heroes (in Japan “yankee” refers to delinquent youths). He was also influenced by the Japanese yankee manga he read from abroad. Because of his own experiences and reading manga, he is full of chivalrous spirit.
Naoya arrives in Japan to spend one year at a high school in Japan. He is transferred to a technical high school which is about to be closed down. Naoya admires the school because a yankee, who he admired as a child, went there, but he soon realizes that there are no real yankee like hero figures. There are only students who spends there days meaninglessly. Naoya is disappointed, but he happens to play water polo.
Notes
- Filming starts in June, 2014.
- Beginning sometime in the 1980’s, the term “yankee” in Japan refers to delinquent youths. They are a frequent subject matter for manga (stereotypically with dyed blond hair, gang members and carrying sticks).
Cast
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| Yuto Nakajima | Kento Yamazaki | Yudai Chiba | Shotaro Mamiya | Taishi Nakagawa |
| Naoya Inaba | Ryuji Mifune | Tomoki Kimura | Ryo Chiaki | Kohei Shimura |
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| Ryo Yoshizawa | Yuma Yamoto | Aya Omasa | Yukiya Kitamura | Leo Morimoto |
| Shinsuke Kato | Koki Miyaguchi | Chiharu Aoyama | Hanzo Kuwahara | Shigenobu Arakawa |
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| Yu Yokoyama | Yuya Takaki | Sakurako Ohara | Yua Shinkawa | Miwako Kakei |
| Yoshio Kurosawa | Torao Kitajima | Nagisa Iwasaki | Kirei Fujisaki | Ryoko Maehata |
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| Hinako Sano | Nobuyuki Suzuki | Kana Kurashina | Kanna Hashimoto |
| Michiko Shibata | Takeshi Goda | Mafuyu Shoji | herself |
Additional Cast Members:
- Yuichi Yasoda – Soseki Irie
- Kazuki Shimizu – Hajime Tsuchino
- Keisuke Tomita – Shohei Kosaka
- Hideyuki Kasahara – Kosuke Kato
- Masayo Umezawa – Shizuko
- Shoko Ikezu – Shizuka Iwasaki
- Sarutoki Minagawa – Toshio Iwasaki
- Tetsuhiro Ikeda – Ozu (ep.1,9-10)
- Takashi Ukaji – Hitoshi Samejima (ep.8)
- Seiya Osada – Sudo (ep.9-10)
Episode Ratings
| Episode | Date | Ratings (Kanto Region) |
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| 01 | 07/12/2014 | 8.8% |
| 02 | 07/19/2014 | 7.2% |
| 03 | 08/02/2014 | 5.6% |
| 04 | 08/09/2014 | 6.7% |
| 05 | 08/16/2014 | 8.1% |
| 06 | 08/23/2014 | 5.6% |
| 07 | 08/30/2014 | 5.4% |
| 08 | 09/06/2014 | 5.7% |
| 09 | 09/13/2014 | 5.6% |
| 10 | 09/20/2014 | 7.5% |
| Average | 6.6% | |
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