Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
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Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Katsumi Shimada
Keizō Kawasaki
Takejima
Ayako Wakao
Akiko Aochi
Yosuke Irie
Masayoshi Umewaka
Masaya Tsukida
Seiji Miyaguchi
Teruko Kishi
Nobuo Nakamura
Fujio Harumoto
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Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
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MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal champion Xavier Grau.
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A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Yukio is your average high school student who spends his days going to class and avoiding bullies. That is until he meets Ryusuke, a guitar prodigy. Together with Taira, Chiba, and Saku they form the rock band BECK. As their popularity increases so does the danger as Ryusuke's past catches up with him.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
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A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
