Details
Title: フードファイト
Title (english): Food fight
Also known as: Food Frenzy
Genre: Food / Human drama
Episodes: 11 + 2 Special
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2000-Jul-01 to 2000-Sep-30
Specials: 2001-Apr-01 & 2001-Sep-29
Air time: Saturday 21:00
Theme song: Lion Heart by SMAP
Synopsis
After growing up in an orphanage, Mitsuru Ihara started working as a custodian at a large food producer. The pleasant, kind Ihara often visits his former home, pretending to be an important business man, not the blue-collar cleaner that he really is. But there's another, bigger secret: He is the reigning champion in an underground eating competition held at the company. In it, two contestants battle to see which can pack away more food within a time limit. The noble Ihara, with nine consecutive wins, always donates the money anonymously to his orphanage. The circumstances surrounding his victories, however, are often surprising and usually unusual. --NTV
Cast
Kusanagi Tsuyoshi as Ihara Mitsuru
Maeda Goki as young Mitsuru (ep6,9)
Fukada Kyoko as Tamura Manami
Miyazawa Rie as Miyasono Saeko
Kimura Takuya as tht voice of the crow
Kakei Toshio as Kisaragi Eichi
Sano Shiro as Miyasono Kyosaku
Yachigusa Kaoru as Miyoshi Yuuko
Tanabe Seiichi as Kagami Shunsuke
Umezu Sakae (梅津栄) as Komagata Shuusaku
Hirata Yuka as Asakura Kasumi
Ozawa Rin (緒沢凛) as Minami Yoshiko
Akiba Manato as Shiozaki (ep1)
Otsu Ayaka (大津綾香) as Kurahashi Yuki (ep2)
Ohira Natsumi (大平奈津美) as Tabata Kumiko (ep3)
Zaitsu Ichiro as Kadokura (ep4)
Furuoya Masato as Nishiwaki
Minamino Yoko as Nishiwaki Sachiko
Nakao Akiyoshi
Doi Yoshio
Challengers
1st Fight: Ichikawa Somegoro as Sakashita Youichi (90% winning rate)
2nd Fight: Taguchi Hiromasa as Yoneyama Katsuyoshi aka David (70% winning rate)
3rd Fight: Ishida Issei as Gonzaresu Iwakami (95% winning rate)
4th Fight: Sakurai Sachiko as Fujishiro Yukiko (70% winning rate)
5th Fight: Yokoyama Yu as Mannaka Hiroumi (89% winning rate)
6th Fight: Tanabe Seiichi as Kagami Shunsuke (98% winning rate)
7th Fight: Asaka Mitsuyo as Ihara Satoko (50% winning rate)
8th Fight: Haga Kenji as Karurosu Okamura (98% winning rate)
9th Fight: Kakei Toshio as (50% winning rate)
10th Fight: Sada Masashi (さだまさし) as Sugawara Gentaro (80% winning rate)
11th Fight: Sano Shiro as Miyasono Kyosaku (99.9% winning rate)
Last Episode Guests
Nakazawa Yuko
Abe Natsumi
Iida Kaoru (飯田圭織)
Yasuda Kei (保田圭)
Yaguchi Mari
Goto Maki
Ishikawa Rika (石川梨華)
Yoshizawa Hitomi
Tsuji Nozomi
Kago Ai
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Yamazaki Atsuya
Producers: Sato Atsushi, Nishi Norihiko
Directors: Sato Toya, Hosono Hidenobu (細野英延), Inomata Ryuichi
Music: Sakurai Tetsutaro (桜井鉄太郎), Kono Shin, Achilles C. Damigos (アキレス・ダミゴス)
Episode Titles
Ep 01: The appearance of the strongest gluttonous man in history!!
Ep 02: A big eater sumo wrestler ramen confrontation!! Tears of a liar Princess
Ep 03: An asskicking hot curry confrontation!! Magic...The girl who shut a heart
Ep 04: Beautiful woman shaved ice confrontation!! A curse of love that faded away in the snowy mountains
Ep 05: Rice cake stuffed with bean jam confrontation!! The mask boy who rode a dolphin
Ep 06: Forgive him...The friendship of flame! Enjoying the cool breeze barbecued chicken confrontion
Ep 07: Are you my mother!? Croquette confrontation of tears
Ep 08: Appetite of anger!! Large South America king steak decisive battle
Ep 09: Sickness that approaches the Champ...Betrayal of as many as 713 Wanko-sobas
Ep 10: A bad drunk belt-conveyor sushi challenge! Gratuitous love of a father who left his family
Ep 11: Proudhearted death in battle...Myna's true colors is K
SP 01: ~ Hong Kong desperate struggle ~
SP 02: ~To the middle of the night limited express desperate struggle ~
