Kisarazu Cat's Eye

木更津キャッツアイ

  • Winter 2002
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NetworkTBS
Broadcast18 Jan 2002 – 15 Mar 2002
Episodes9 Episodes
Viewership—
Fan score 8.8 from 10 reviews

Synopsis

Twenty-one year old former high school baseball player, Kohei, learns that he is dying from cancer. He is told that he only has six months to live, and decides that he wants to do something daring and risky. He proposes to five trusted members from his former baseball club that they form a ring of cat burglars that would steal from those who commit crimes. His friends think it odd, but feel they cannot turn down a dying man's request. With only six months, how much could they do anyway?

Synopsis: TBS

Cast & characters 12 credited

Theme song

  • “A Day in Our Life” — Arashi

Fan reviews 10 reviews

8.8/ 10
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Sad or crazy drama

8 / 10

ester_grace · 2011

It must be a sad dorama because the main character busan will die soon, busan maybe sometimes feel lonely when it comes to think about his disease. But because he always do crazy thing with his gank, i can't ever cry when i see him.

saiko desu

10 / 10

kacang · 2007

The best of the best drama I even seen.I wacth the Nihon series alot of time n I know what to say when times come. but i"m not have that series anymore coz I'm delect it. I also make this story mymanga in my drawing book

near perfect

9 / 10

Tokumei · 2007

This is another example of Kankuro Kudofs talent of mixing the hilarity of a screwball comedy with the despair and the loneliness of the people living at the fringes of society. Most of the characters are seeming nefer-do-wells and losers: a dying 21 year-old cancer patient, juvenile semi-delinquents, owners of failing stores, a pathological shop-lifter, a strip tease dancer, a call girl, an unlicensed barber, a teacher who has decided to get back at the students who have tormented her at school. All of them somehow come out as individuals with dignity and humanity. (Kudo does not condone criminality. He describes the brutality and savagery of real predatory criminals (gangsters involved in juvenile prostitution and extortion) without any sympathy.)
As many critics commented, this drama is irreverent, unpredictable and funny, but the undertone is pathos, as was reflected in the scene where one of the characters, Ozzy, who has been brain-damaged in an accident during a baseball match, suddenly remembers the following phrases from Macbeth he played in his high school days. Kudo gets him to recite:
. . . Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Pathos does not diminish hilarity.
A few words about some older actors who are relatively unknown among young JDorama fans: Ozzy, the character who appears in the first scene, saying gIt is the MORNING!h and who later recites Macbeth is played by Arata Furuta who is a star player of the enormously popular Shinkansen Theater Group. gYouh plays a call girl on roller skates. (gYouh played the mother in Kore-edafs gNobody Knows.h) Sadao Abe (who played the incompetent policeman in Ikebukuro West Gate Park and Donta in Tiger & Dragon) plays the Cat. Fumiyo Kohinata, who plays the father of the leading character (Bussan by Junichi Okada), is in numerous movies and TV series including Fuurinkazan.

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