Japanese Drama - Food Fight

* Title: フードファイト
* Title (english): Food fight
* Also known as: Food Frenzy
* Genre: Food / Human drama
* Episodes: 11 + 2 Special
* Broadcast network: NTV
* Broadcast period: 2000-Jul-01 to 2000-Sep-30
o Specials: 2001-Apr-01 & 2001-Sep-29
* Air time: Saturday 21:00
* Theme song: Lion Heart by SMAP

Synopsis

After growing up in an orphanage, Mitsuru Ihara started working as a custodian at a large food producer. The pleasant, kind Ihara often visits his former home, pretending to be an important business man, not the blue-collar cleaner that he really is.

But there's another, bigger secret: He is the reigning champion in an underground eating competition held at the company. In it, two contestants battle to see which can pack away more food within a time limit. The noble Ihara, with nine consecutive wins, always donates the money anonymously to his orphanage. The circumstances surrounding his victories, however, are often surprising and usually unusual. -- NTV

Cast

* Kusanagi Tsuyoshi as Ihara Mitsuru
o Maeda Goki as young Mitsuru (ep6,9)
* Fukada Kyoko as Tamura Manami
* Miyazawa Rie as Miyasono Saeko
* Kimura Takuya as tht voice of the crow
* Kakei Toshio as Kisaragi Eichi
* Sano Shiro as Miyasono Kyosaku
* Yachigusa Kaoru as Miyoshi Yuuko
* Tanabe Seiichi as Kagami Shunsuke
* Umezu Sakae (梅津栄) as Komagata Shuusaku
* Hirata Yuka as Asakura Kasumi
* Ozawa Rin (緒沢凛) as Minami Yoshiko
* Akiba Manato as Shiozaki (ep1)
* Otsu Ayaka (大津綾香) as Kurahashi Yuki (ep2)
* Ohira Natsumi (大平奈津美) as Tabata Kumiko (ep3)
* Zaitsu Ichiro as Kadokura (ep4)
* Furuoya Masato as Nishiwaki
* Minamino Yoko as Nishiwaki Sachiko
* Nakao Akiyoshi
* Doi Yoshio

Challengers

* 1st Fight: Ichikawa Somegoro as Sakashita Youichi (90% winning rate)
* 2nd Fight: Taguchi Hiromasa as Yoneyama Katsuyoshi aka David (70% winning rate)
* 3rd Fight: Ishida Issei as Gonzaresu Iwakami (95% winning rate)
* 4th Fight: Sakurai Sachiko as Fujishiro Yukiko (70% winning rate)
* 5th Fight: Yokoyama Yu as Mannaka Hiroumi (89% winning rate)
* 6th Fight: Tanabe Seiichi as Kagami Shunsuke (98% winning rate)
* 7th Fight: Asaka Mitsuyo as Ihara Satoko (50% winning rate)
* 8th Fight: Haga Kenji as Karurosu Okamura (98% winning rate)
* 9th Fight: Kakei Toshio as (50% winning rate)
* 10th Fight: Sada Masashi (さだまさし) as Sugawara Gentaro (80% winning rate)
* 11th Fight: Sano Shiro as Miyasono Kyosaku (99.9% winning rate)

Last Episode Guests

* Nakazawa Yuko
* Abe Natsumi
* Iida Kaoru (飯田圭織)
* Yasuda Kei (保田圭)
* Yaguchi Mari
* Goto Maki
* Ishikawa Rika (石川梨華)
* Yoshizawa Hitomi
* Tsuji Nozomi
* Kago Ai

Production Credits

* Screenwriter: Yamazaki Atsuya
* Producers: Sato Atsushi, Nishi Norihiko
* Directors: Sato Toya, Hosono Hidenobu (細野英延), Inomata Ryuichi
* Music: Sakurai Tetsutaro (桜井鉄太郎), Kono Shin, Achilles C. Damigos (アキレス・ダミゴス)

Episode Titles

* Ep 01: The appearance of the strongest gluttonous man in history!!
* Ep 02: A big eater sumo wrestler ramen confrontation!! Tears of a liar Princess
* Ep 03: An asskicking hot curry confrontation!! Magic...The girl who shut a heart
* Ep 04: Beautiful woman shaved ice confrontation!! A curse of love that faded away in the snowy mountains
* Ep 05: Rice cake stuffed with bean jam confrontation!! The mask boy who rode a dolphin
* Ep 06: Forgive him...The friendship of flame! Enjoying the cool breeze barbecued chicken confrontion
* Ep 07: Are you my mother!? Croquette confrontation of tears
* Ep 08: Appetite of anger!! Large South America king steak decisive battle
* Ep 09: Sickness that approaches the Champ...Betrayal of as many as 713 Wanko-sobas
* Ep 10: A bad drunk belt-conveyor sushi challenge! Gratuitous love of a father who left his family
* Ep 11: Proudhearted death in battle...Myna's true colors is K
* SP 01: ~ Hong Kong desperate struggle ~
* SP 02: ~To the middle of the night limited express desperate struggle ~

Episode Ratings

* Ep 01: 17.1%
* Ep 02: 18.1%
* Ep 03: 15.9%
* Ep 04: 19.0%
* Ep 05: 15.9%
* Ep 06: 14.4%
* Ep 07: 14.6%
* Ep 08: 17.3%
* Ep 09: 15.5%
* Ep 10: 20.0%
* Ep 11: 21.5%
* SP 01: 20.2%
* SP 02: 17.0%

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