Rookies the Movie: Graduation (2009)
Overview
Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Composed of student delinquents, Futakotamagawa High's new Literature teacher Kawato Koichi inspires the Baseball Club to believe in a dream goal once again. For them, it is to play at the Koshien - Japan's National High School Baseball Championship. But, Kawato Koichi and the newly reformed baseball team run into plenty of obstacles along the way...
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $88,055,243.00 |
| Original Language | ja |
| Popularity | 0.25 |
Directed By
Yuichiro Hirakawa
Crew
Kazuya Hamana
Shigetomo Madarame
Yuichiro Hirakawa
Takefumi Haketa
Tamio Kobayashi
Yu Takami
Mihoko Takahashi
Nobuhiro Azuma
Yoshihiro Sato
Jun Satake
Hiroki Taniguchi
Masato Akiyama
Kazunobu Kosaka
Yuji Nakamae
Yoshitaka Matsuura
Masana Machiura
Tsuru Masaaki
Yasuhito Hattori
Travis Hottinger
Tetsuya Shiraishi
Takahiro Ogaki
Kazuyuki Kawasato
Kenji Sakota
Hirohide Shida
Yoshihiro Suzuki
Yoshihiro Izumi
Takashi Yanagi
TOP CAST
Ryuta Sato
Koichi Kawato
Hayato Ichihara
Keiichi Aniya
Keisuke Koide
Toru Mikoshiba
Yu Shirota
Kei Shinjo
Akiyoshi Nakao
Shuta Sekikawa
Sousuke Takaoka
Tomochika Wakana
Kenta Kiritani
Taira Hiratsuka
Takeru Satoh
Yuya Okada
Shunji Igarashi
Tetsura Yufune
Yôsuke Kawamura
Kiyooki Hiyama
Hiroyuki Onoue
Shinobu Imaoka
Yusuke Yamamoto
Shoji Akahoshi
Takuya Ishida
Taiyo Hamanaka
Haruka Ayase
Kyoko Mikoshiba
Eri Murakawa
Toko Yagi
Atsuro Watabe
Makoto Yoshida
Kohei Tanaka
Joji Kawakami
Hiroyuki Amano
Mitsuhide Kakefu
Anna Nose
Kaoru Fujita
Hiroyuki Hirayama
Ukyo Shimano
Kazuyuki Asano
Shunsaku Ikebe
Kazue Fukiishi
Rie Tanaka
Ren Osugi
Akihiro Fujimura
Masatô Ibu
Yoshio Murayama
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