Difference between revisions of "Gekokujo Kyuji"

Revision as of 10:10, 24 May 2025

Gekokujo Kyuji

Details

Title: 下剋上球児
Title (romaji): Gekokujo Kyuji
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Human Drama, Sports, School
Episodes: 10
Viewership ratings: 9.6%
Broadcast network: TBS
Broadcast period: 2023-Oct-15 to 2023-Dec-17
Air time: Sunday 21:00
Theme song: Ashes by Superfly

Synopsis

Inspired by nonfiction "Gekokujo Kyuji: Mie Prefectural Hakusan High School, Miracle to the Koshien" which talks about a local school baseball team that has been losing its first game in the prefectural tournament for the past 10 consecutive years. The drama focuses on Nagumo Shuji, a man who played baseball all his life until an injury in college forced him to retire. Shuji is now a social studies teacher and his daily life changes drastically after he is put in charge of the school's weak baseball team that is on the verge of disbandment.

User/Viewer Ratings

4.67

(3 votes)

Cast

Koshiyama High School

School staff

Suzuki Ryohei as Nagumo Shuji (Social Studies / Baseball team in charge)
Kuroki Haru as Yamazumi Kanako (Home Economics)
Namase Katsuhisa as Yokota Munenori (Teacher)
Koizumi Kotaro as Niwa Shingo (Principal)

Baseball Team

Nakazawa Motoki as Inuzuka Sho (Year 1)
Hyodo Katsumi as Nemuro Chihiro (Year 1 / Yuzuki's younger brother)
Ito Asahi as Tsubakiya Marin (Year 1)
Kobayashi Toranosuke (小林虎之介) as Hioki Soma (Year 1 / Makoto's younger brother)
Tachibana Yuki as Kugahara Atsushi (Year 1)
Ikuta Shunpei (生田俊平) as Nire Shinjiro (Year 1)
Sugo Araki as Hioki Makoto (Year 3 / Captain)
Zaitsu Yutaro (財津優太郎) as Hasegawa Kanta (Year 3)
Suzuki Atsuya (鈴木敦也) as Fujimoto Taiga (Year 3)
Fukumatsu Rin (福松凜) as Tomishima Yuya (Year 2)
Okuno So as Nohara Shun (Year 2)
Itose Soichi (絃瀬聡一) as Benioka Shogo (Year 2)

Others

Igawa Haruka as Nagumo Mika (Shuji's wife)
Banka Tenta as Nagumo Aozora (Shuji's son)
Kurata Ema as Nagumo Nagisa (Shuji's daughter)
Nakamura Shiyun (中村シユン) as Yamazaki Nanahiko (Mika's father)
Kohinata Fumiyo as Inuzuka Mikio (Major landowner)
Asumi Rio as Inuzuka Anna (Sho's mother; Mikio's daughter)
Yamashita Mizuki as Nemuro Yuzuki (Chihiro's elder sister; hairstylist)
Kyon (きょん) as Aoinuma Kenta (Convenience store employee)
Matsudaira Ken as Gamon Eisuke (Hoshiba High School Baseball team's coach)

Production Credits

Original work: Non-fiction by Kikuchi Takahiro
Screenwriter: Okudera Satoko
Producer: Arai Junko
Director: Tsukahara Ayuko, Yamamuro Daisuke, Hamano Daiki (濱野大輝), Tanazawa Takayoshi
Music: jizue

Recognitions

118th Television Drama Academy Awards (Autumn 2023): Best Actor - Suzuki Ryohei
118th Television Drama Academy Awards (Autumn 2023): Best Director - Tsukahara Ayuko, Yamamuro Daisuke, Hamano Daiki (濱野大輝), Tanazawa Takayoshi

External Links

Summer 2023	TBS	Winter 2024
VIVANT	Sunday 21:00	Sayonara Maestro

@@ Line 45: / Line 45: @@
 ;Others
 *[[Igawa Haruka]] as Nagumo Mika <small>(Shuji's wife)</small>
+*[[Banka Tenta]] as Nagumo Aozora <small>(Shuji's son)</small>
+*[[Kurata Ema]] as Nagumo Nagisa <small>(Shuji's daughter)</small>
+*[[Nakamura Shiyun]] (中村シユン) as Yamazaki Nanahiko <small>(Mika's father)</small>
 *[[Kohinata Fumiyo]] as Inuzuka Mikio <small>(Major landowner)</small>
 *[[Asumi Rio]] as Inuzuka Anna <small>(Sho's mother; Mikio's daughter)</small>