Ping Pong

Jul 20, 2002

1h 54m

★ 7.1

Enter the hero!

Overview

As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

TBS

Asmik Ace Entertainment

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Cast

Yutaka "Peco" Hoshino

Yosuke Kubozuka

Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto

Arata Iura

Kong "China" Wenge

Sam Lee

Ryuichi "Dragon" Kazama

Shido Nakamura

Manabu "Demon" Sakuma

Koji Ohkura

Butterfly Joe

Naoto Takenaka

Obaba

Mari Natsuki

Police Officer on the Bridge

Suzuki Matsuo

Ota

Yoshiyoshi Arakawa

Tako

Koen Kondo

Gomi

Takahiro Hirano

Coach for Chinese Player

Kaei Okina

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Ping Pong

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