Kisarazu Cat's Eye

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Kisarazu Cat's Eye (Japanese: 木更津キャッツアイ) a Japanese television drama in nine episodes that aired from January 18 to March 15 2002. One of the more different dramas for the recent times as this drama series is told in a unique style along with a hilarious and whacky scenes. For the most part the drama series is a comedy, which makes it very enjoyable.

The story of this drama series follows a young teen at the age of 21 named Kohei played by Okada Junichi. The setting of the story is in Kisarazu (hence the title of the drama series), which is a city in Chiba, Japan. He is diagnosed with cancer and has been told that he has a total of 6 months to live. Instead of being depressed, Kohei decides to do something else, something daring and unique.

The Japanese drama focuses mainly on Kohei and four of his close friends and the 5 grew up together as they were all on the high school baseball team. Bambi (Sakurai Shou), Masta (Sato Ryuta), Ani (Tsukamoto Takashi), and Ucchie (Okada Yoshinori). Kohei, who is called Bussan by his close friends, form the group Kisarazu Cat's Eye.

The whole theme for the group is based on a manga (Japanese comic) called Cat's Eye or キャッツ アイ. Cat's Eye follows the story of three sisters who lead a double life where the appear normal during the day and become skilled thieves in the night. Hence the theme of Kisarazu Cat's Eye. Except that Kohei's group of friends play baseball during the day while getting into mischief and into other troubles and whacky situations and during the night they steal or solve their own life's crisis. But they mainly just solve their own hilarious crisis.

[edit] External links

• Official website (in Japanese)