Details
Title: ふぞろいの林檎たち
Title (romaji): Fuzoroi no Ringotachi
Also known as: Odd Apples
Format: Renzoku
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period:
Season 1 - 1983-May-27 to 1983-Jul-29 (10 eps, 17.6)
Season 2 - 1985-Mar-15 to 1985-Jun-07 (13 eps, 18.0)
Season 3 - 1991-Jan-11 to 1991-Mar-22 (11 eps)
Season 4 - 1997-Apr-11 to 1997-Jul-04 (13 eps, 17.4)
Air time: Friday 22:00
Theme song: Itoshi no Elly by Southern All Stars
Synopsis
Nakategawa, Iwata, and Nishidera are students at a low-level university, who set up a hiking club in order to meet girls. Their first catches comprise Harue and Yoko, who are studying to be nurses, and the plain Ayako who attends an elite women's college. Nakategawa also gets to know a club hostess Natsue, who is living with the misanthropic Honda, a Tokyo University graduate who runs a com-puter business from home.
As a coda to Japan's many educational dramas, Fuzoroi no Ringotachi features a new perspective on the importance attached to academic honors. Its characters chiefly lack any self-confidence and vision for the future but still make it through, regardless of their apparent failure to do well in the examination culture that so often defines "success".
Cast
Nakai Kiichi as Nakategawa (Seasons 1-4)
Tokito Saburo as Iwata (S1-4)
Ishihara Mariko as Harue (S1-4)
Tezuka Satomi as Yoko (S1-4)
Yanagisawa Shingo as Nishidera (S1-4)
Nakajima Shoko as Ayako (S1-4)
Kunihiro Tomiyuki as Honda (S1-4)
Takahashi Hitomi as Natsue (S1-4)
Kobayashi Kaoru (S1-2)
Kobayashi Nenji (S2-3)
Yuki Nae (裕木奈江) (S3)
Nagase Tomoya (S4)
Nakatani Miki (S4)
Doguchi Yoriko (S4)
Matsuzawa Kazuyuki (S4)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Yamada Taichi (山田太一)
Producer: Oyama Katsumi, Katashima Kenji
Director: Kamoshita Shinichi, Inoshita Yasuo, Oyama Katsumi
