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Genre | Comedy |
Written by | Kankurō Kudō |
Directed by | Fuminori Kaneko |
Starring |
Junichi Okada Sho Sakurai Yoshinori Okada Ryuta Sato Takashi Tsukamoto |
Ending theme | A Day in Our Life by Arashi |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language(s) | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 9 (list of episodes) |
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Producer(s) | Aki Isoyama |
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Original network | TBS |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | January 18 – March 15, 2002 |
Kisarazu Cat's Eye (木更津キャッツアイ Kisarazu Kyattsu Ai?) is a humorous Japanese television show and movie series. To date, there have been two Kisarazu Cat's Eye movies:Kisarazu Cat's Eye Nihon Series (2003) and Kisarazu Cat's Eye World Series (2006).
The story follows a 21-year-old young man named Kohei (Okada Junichi) in Kisarazu, a city in Chiba, Japan. Diagnosed with cancer he has 6 months to live, but instead of being depressed, he decides to make something of the time he has left.
The show focuses mainly on Kohei and his close friends: They grew up on the same high school baseball team. Kohei, known as Bussan to his close friends, forms the group "Kisarazu Cat's Eye" which also consists of Bambi (Sakurai Sho), Master (Ryuta Sato), Ani (Tsukamoto Takashi), and Ucchi (Okada Yoshinori). The theme of the group is based on a manga (Japanese comic) called Cat's Eye or キャッツ アイ. The friends, however, play baseball during the day while getting into mischief at night. Sometimes they solve life crises; mainly, however, they solve smaller, humorous problems.