Stand Up!!

Stand Up!!
Created by	Arisa Kaneko
Starring	Kazunari Ninomiya Tomohisa Yamashita Anne Suzuki Hiroki Narimiya Shun Oguri
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	11
Production
Running time	45 min.
Release
Original network	Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS)
Original release	July 4 – September 12, 2003

Stand Up!! (スタンドアップ!!, Sutando Appu!!^?) is a Japanese television drama which ran weekly for three months in 2003. The drama, which stars Kazunari Ninomiya of Arashi and Tomohisa Yamashita of NEWS, centers on the lives of the last four virgins left in their highschool as they struggle to lose their virginity over their final high school summer vacation. A 6-DVD Box Set featuring all eleven episodes, as well as six individual volumes were released in Japan on December 18, 2003.

Four schoolboys find themselves the last virgins left at school. During the summer holidays, a girl they knew as children 11 years ago, moves back to the neighborhood. Despite their childhood attraction to her, they realize she is a mere shadow of the "princess" they all thought they knew. This story of summer - love, friendship, school, family, the hypocrisy of adults, complications of life, experience and failure is set in an everyday shopping district and shows the clumsiness of children who have developed a little later than their peers.

The story takes place in the Shinagawa ward of Tokyo, although at least one location, namely the school, is actually in Yokohama.

Shōhei (浅井正平, Asai Shōhei^?, played by Kazunari Ninomiya), nicknamed Shō-chan, is the main protagonist of the story, and often his thoughts are expressed by narration. He lives with his older sister Yuriko and his parents, who run a drugstore. At the start of the series, he is head over heels in love with one of his temporary teachers, the young Isuzu Mochizuki. His life starts to go crazy when an old childhood friend, Chie Ōwada, decides to visit the four long-time friends and moves into his house.

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