Pride(2004)

series - first aired/released 2004-01-12 - audience 8.0

Drama

Directed by Hirai Hideki, Isamu Nakae, Kensaku Sawada

Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only consider love as a game. Aki Murase is a woman who has been waiting for her lover who went abroad two years ago. These two persons start a relationship while frankly admitting to each other that it is only a love game. …The result is the unfolding of a drama of people with their respective pasts and with their pride as individuals.