The read
A Balasaur Score of 79 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.9/10. The series ran 1 season across 11 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.9/10
40 audience votes
Seasons
| 1 | Season 1 | 11 ep2004 |
Key crew
- Shinji NojimaScreenplay
- Hirai HidekiDirector
- Isamu NakaeDirector
- Kensaku SawadaDirector
- Ryo YoshimataOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Takuya KimuraHaru Satonaka
- Yuko TakeuchiAki Murase
- Kenji SakaguchiYamato Hotta
- Matsumoto Kōshirō XTomonori Ikegawa
- Ryuta SatoMakoto Shimamura
- Saori TakizawaSaeko Sonoda
- Saburo TokitoKengo Anzai
- Yuriko IshidaYoko Anzai
- Koichi SatoYuichiro Hyodo
- Noriko NakagoshiYuri Aizawa
- MEGUMIChika Ishikawa
- Shosuke TaniharaKeisuke Natsukawa
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