Pride

Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only consider love as a game. Aki Murase is a woman who has been waiting for her lover who went abroad two years ago. These two persons start a relationship while frankly admitting to each other that it is only a love game. …The result is the unfolding of a drama of people with their respective pasts and with their pride as individuals.

Director: Hirai Hideki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takuya Kimura, Yuko Takeuchi, Kenji Sakaguchi, Matsumoto Kōshirō X, Ryuta Sato, Saori Takizawa, Saburo Tokito, Yuriko Ishida, Koichi Sato, Noriko Nakagoshi

• Release date: 2004-01-12
• Country: Japan