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Rookies the Movie: Graduation

Rookies the Movie: Graduation

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Overview

Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Composed of student delinquents, Futakotamagawa High's new Literature teacher Kawato Koichi inspires the Baseball Club to believe in a dream goal once again. For them, it is to play at the Koshien - Japan's National High School Baseball Championship. But, Kawato Koichi and the newly reformed baseball team run into plenty of obstacles along the way...

Directed by Yuichiro Hirakawa
Written by Yoshihiro Izumi, Masanori Morita
Produced by Masato Akiyama, Nobuhiro Azuma, Yoshihiro Sato
Box Office0Revenue: $88.1M

Top Cast

Ryuta Sato

Ryuta Sato

Koichi Kawato

Hayato Ichihara

Hayato Ichihara

Keiichi Aniya

Keisuke Koide

Keisuke Koide

Toru Mikoshiba

Yu Shirota

Yu Shirota

Kei Shinjo

Akiyoshi Nakao

Akiyoshi Nakao

Shuta Sekikawa

Sousuke Takaoka

Sousuke Takaoka

Tomochika Wakana

Kenta Kiritani

Kenta Kiritani

Taira Hiratsuka

Takeru Satoh

Takeru Satoh

Yuya Okada

Shunji Igarashi

Shunji Igarashi

Tetsura Yufune

Yôsuke Kawamura

Yôsuke Kawamura

Kiyooki Hiyama

Themes & Keywords

sportsdelinquentbaseballdelinquencybased on mangajuvenile delinquentjapanese high schoolbukatsu

About Rookies the Movie: Graduation

Rookies the Movie: Graduation is a drama film released in 2009 exploring themes of sports, delinquent, baseball, delinquency, based on manga, juvenile delinquent. Directed by Yuichiro Hirakawa, it stars Ryuta Sato, Hayato Ichihara, Keisuke Koide. Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Composed of student delinquents, Futakotamagawa High's new Literature teacher Kawato Koichi inspires the Baseball Club to believe in a dream goal once again. For them, it is to play at the Koshien - Japan's National High School Baseball Championship. But, Kawato Koichi and the newly reformed baseball team run into plenty of obstacles along the way...

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