Pride (TV series)
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| Pride プライド |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Running time | approx. 0:46 |
| Starring | Takuya Kimura Yūko Takeuchi |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original channel | Fuji TV |
| Original run | 12 January 2004–22 March 2004 |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
Pride (プライド) is a Japanese drama.
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[edit] Cast
- Takuya Kimura (as Halu Satonaka)
- Yūko Takeuchi (as Aki Murase)
- Kenji Sakaguchi (as Yamato Hotta)
- Noriko Nakagoshi (as Yuri Aizawa)
- Ryuta Sato (as Makoto Shimamura)
- Megumi (as Chika Ishikawa)
- Somegoro Ichikawa (as Tomonori Ikegami)
- Saori Takizawa (as Saeko Sonoda)
- Koichi Sato (as Yuichiro Hyodo)
- Saburo Tokito (as Anzai)
- Yuriko Ishida (as Yoko)
[edit] Summary
With Pride (プライド), Takuya Kimura has done it again. This time around he's Haru, an ice hockey star, and he sent the ratings puck zipping skyward in week one with the assistance of a sharply honed Shinji Nojima script. It's an entertaining romance with some serious undertones and lots of ice hockey action. Haru (spelled Halu on his uniform to provide a more exotic touch) idolizes his first coach, Anzai, played by Saburo Tokito, who, like Yukari, is also killed off in the very first episode. But he hovers over the story and Haru's life as he tries to cope with the new irritating coach played by Koichi Sato. One of the things Anzai has instilled in him is that he can't fall in love. Romance has to be a game during his serious playing career. He has no trouble following those rules until he meets Aki. It starts out as a game as his friends pick up her friends and he observes that she may be one of those rare, old-type Japanese girls who is not so quickly picked up or toyed with. This makes the game more enticing because that is the kind of woman he really wants. When Haru finds she is waiting for a long-gone boyfriend to return, he suggests they should just hang out together until then. Since neither wants to get serious, it will be safe for both of them. She sees through this line but agrees. This one will keep viewers coming back game after game. Four goals!
- Excerpt from Daily Yomiuri, Wm. Penn, January 22, 2004
[edit] The story
Haru Satonaka (Takuya Kimura) 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 Murase (Yūko Takeuchi) is a typical businesswoman, 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 Haru for the first time.
After the game, Aki and her friends join the players for a party celebrating their victory. Aki, however, is not so excited to be there. When she leaves the party, she bumps into Haru, 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 Haru, arranged with the help of her friends shortly after a party.
Yuichiro Hyodo (Koichi Sato) has come as a replacement for the team's coach who has been hospitalized. Haru has a lot of respect for the hospitalized coach. Unfortunately though, 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 Haru and Hyodo see each other, they get into a quarrel-consequently influencing Haru's behavior during games.
Seeing that his game ended in a brawl, Aki visits Haru to comfort him. But he tells her that she is being too friendly with him.
Aki is hurt, Haru is irritated, and his teammate Yamato (Kenji Sakaguchi) can't stand seeing Haru like this...
[edit] Theme songs
Songs in this drama were played almost all Queen's songs. "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Will Rock You", "We Are the Champions", "Radio Ga-Ga", "Too Much Love Will Kill You", "Let Me Live" etc were used in this drama.
