Captain (1983)
Douban
青少棒扬威记
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キャプテン
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director:
Satoshi Dezaki
playwright:
Noboru Shiroyama
actor:
和栗正明
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熊谷誠二
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Masashi Amenomori
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Miyoko Aso
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Shūichirō Moriyama
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genre:
Animation
region:
Japan
language:
Japanese
number of episodes: 26
release date: 1983-01-10
IMDb: tt6012918
Overview
The original is an impressive sports manga featuring not heroes, but common boys, and the story depicts the growth of Sumiya 2 junior high school baseball team (the successive captains and players) in downtown Tokyo. Takao Taniguchi, who was a substitute player of the second team of Aoba Gakuin, a prestigious junior high school in the baseball world, but he transferred to Sumiya 2 and he became the captain of the baseball club. After steady training, the team try to do a final game in the regional preliminaries, against Aoba Gakuin.