The Last Game

Nov 3, 1979

2h 4m

★ 0.0

Overview

After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed forces and face the hardships of military service.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Tokyo Channel 12 Television

TOHO

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Cast

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Hiroshi Katsuno

Hirotaro Honda

Keiko Takeshita

Naoko Ohtani

Kumi Mizuno

Kaoru Yachigusa

Kunie Tanaka

Shin Kishida

Ichirō Nakatani

Noboru Nakaya

Eijirō Tōno

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