Details
Title: ファイト
Also known as: FIGHT
Genre: Asadora drama, family drama
Episodes: 162 15-minute episodes (27 weeks)
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2005-Mar-28 to 2005-Oct-1
Viewership ratings: ep1=16.9 high=21.9 avg=16.7
Opening theme song: FIGHT Opening Theme
Original soundtrack (OST): FIGHT - TV Original Soundtrack, BVCF-31123
Series Synopsis
The 72nd NHK asadora Fight is a story about fifteen year old Yuu, whose family becomes separated after an incident involving her father's spring factory. With her undying spirit to "fight" off every obstacle arising in life, Yuu maintains her positive attitude and moves forward in hopes of the day when her family will reunite again.
Yuu's day beings with a secret ritual of visiting a racing horse stable. There, she kindles a unique and precious friendship with a throughbred horse named Jonko, who becomes Yuu's sole confidant in times of hardship.
In the midst of teenage years, Yuu undergoes a series of challenges in her daily life; from striving to make it into her school's prestigious softball team to forging friendships among her classmates. Yet, her life becomes further complicated when her father is forced to close down his spring factory after revealing a scandal involving Yuu's best friend Rika's father. To make ends meet for the family, her mother then makes the hard choice of moving away from home to work as a live-in maid at a Komanokan Inn in Shima Onsen. Despite the tremendous pressure and hardships Yuu faces throughout her life, she continues to battle and conquer every situation with the courage she draws from her kindred spirit, Jonko. --- written by groink
Weekly Ratings
When rating the NHK Asadora dramas, the researching firm samples one or two episodes per week. If there are two episodes sampled in a given week, the rating is the average of the two episodes. Rating information is provided by Video Research Ltd. of Japan. Episode numbering is provided by groink.
Week 1: "Happiness" (2005/3/28 M ep001) - 16.9
Week 2: "Changing" (2005/4/4 M ep007) - 15.8
Week 3: "The Right Thing" (2005/4/11 M ep013) - 16.6
Week 4: "Goodbye" (2005/4/19 Tu ep020) - 16.0
Week 5: "I Won't Give Up" (2005/4/26 Tu ep026) - 16.2
Week 6: "Thank You" (2005/5/6 F ep035) - 16.5
Week 7: "Friends" (2005/5/14 S ep042) - 16.0
Week 8: "Trust" (2005/5/20 F ep047) - 16.6
Week 9: "I'm Going to Work" (2005/5/24 Tu ep052) - 16.5
Week 10: "Mom" (2005/6/3 F ep059) - 18.1
Week 11: "I Want to See You" (2005/6/9 Th ep064) - 16.7
Week 12: "What I Want to Do" (2005/6/15 W ep069) - 17.7
Week 13: "To Tokyo" (2005/6/23 Th ep076) - 17.8
Week 14: "Love" (2005/6/28 Tu ep080) - 18.1
Week 15: "I Won't Lose" (2005/7/8 F ep089) - 17.7
Week 16: "Heart" (2005/7/14 Th ep094) - 19.0
Week 17: "Make a Comeback" (2005/7/21 Th ep100) - 17.5
Week 18: "Let's Go Home" (2005/7/26 Tu ep104) - 18.7
Week 19: "Making a New Start" (2005/8/5 F ep113) - 17.8
Week 20: "A Look" (2005/8/10 W ep117) - 18.7
Week 21: "True Feelings" (2005/8/16 Tu ep124) - 18.7
Week 22: "Touch One Another" (2005/8/26 F ep131) - 21.9
Week 23: "A Step Towards a New Beginning" (2005/9/1 Th ep136) - 19.0
Week 24: "Farewell, Jonko" (2005/9/6 Tu ep140 and 9/8 Th ep142) - 17.6
Week 25: "Fulfilling a Dream" (2005/9/12 M ep145) - 18.4
Week 26: "The Start of a Journey" (2005/9/24 S ep156) - 18.1
Week 27: "A Sweet Smile" (2005/9/30 F ep161) - 19.8 (final ep is 162)
Cast
Main characters
Motokariya Yuika as Kido Yuu (heroine, age 15)
Ogata Naoto as Kido Keita
Sakai Noriko as Kido Asako
Tanaka Saeki as Kido Dan
Tanaka Saeki as Kido Nozomu (age 5)
Yagi Toshihiko (八木俊彦) as Kido Dan (age 13)
Mitsubayashi Kyoko as Takakura Kayo
Takasaki
Watanabe Toru as Kuroki Shuuji
Kawahara Ayako as Komada Kotoko
Kakiuchi Ayami as Kuroki Rika
Miura Haruma as Okabe Kiyoshi
Shima Hot Springs
Yuki Saori as Komada Kinuko
Kodama Kiyoshi as Komada Takayuki
Okayama Hajime as Komada Hajime
Mihara Junko as Komada Toshimi
Yamaguchi Makiya as Dr. Kawasaki Hiromichi
Nekoda Jika as Yamada Matsuba (maid)
Shishido Miwako as Kasai Takeko (maid)
Tanabe Hikari as Ito Koume (maid)
Murakami Stables
Tamura Takahiro as Murakami Yoshitaka
Segawa Ryo as Shinagawa Taro
Dansuawarutsu as Saigo Jonko*
* - Dansuawarutsu is a real-life race horse in Japan
Fujimura Shunji as Saigo Goichi
Kusamura Reiko as Saigo Tamako
Ogawa Ryuichi (小川隆一) as Kanai Kazuya (veterinarian)
Inoue Jun as Imaoka Atsushi
Takeyutaka (武豊) as himself (race horse jockey)
Kido Spring Factory
Numata Baku as Kamei Tetsuo (senior employee)
Yamazaki Hajime as Nakamura Yosuke
Masuno Hidetomo
Ishii Tomoya as Yoshimoto Ken
Matsumoto Kanako as Yoshimoto (Kumagaya)
Kobayashi Takashika as Takenaka Masahiko
Takabayashi Takashika (尿林高鹿) as Arai Hiromoto (newspaper writer)
Yuu's schools
Kikuchi Kinya as Hayashi Michihiko (Takasaki Daisen Chugakko softball coach)
Oikawa Izo as Shinjo Atsushi (Kazabana Joshi Koto Gakkou softball coach)
Sato Hitomi as Kataoka Mari (homeroom teacher at Kazabana)
Tajima Honami as Tono Shiori (classmate at Kazabana)
Shida Nanako as Miramida Moe (classmate at Kazabana)
Konno Narumi as Kitakaze Kaede (classmate at Kazabana)
Others
Kozu Hazuki as Yasui Yoko (taught Asako flower arranging)
Yamaguchi Ai as Yuu when she was very young
Sugai Kin as Hirata Fumi (ep75)
Ono Ryo as Scoutman
Production Credits
Written by: Hashibe Atsuko
Music by: Sakakibara Dai
Narrator: Shibata Yukiko
Artwork: Nishihara Rieko (the watercolor paintings you see at the end of each episode)
