Fuzoroi no Ringotachi: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Nakategawa, Iwata, and Nishidera are students at a low-level university, who set up a hiking club in order to meet girls. Their first catches comprise Harue and Yoko, who are studying to be nurses, and the plain Ayako who attends an elite women's college. Nakategawa also gets to know a club hostess Natsue, who is living with the misanthropic Honda, a Tokyo University graduate who runs a com-puter business from home.

As a coda to Japan's many educational dramas, Fuzoroi no Ringotachi features a new perspective on the importance attached to academic honors. Its characters chiefly lack any self-confidence and vision for the future but still make it through, regardless of their apparent failure to do well in the examination culture that so often defines "success".

Series details

• Title: Fuzoroi no Ringotachi
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Romance
• Premiere date: 1983-05-27
• Final broadcast date listed: 1997-07-04
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TBS
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 54 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 44298
• IMDb ID: tt1729829
• TVDB ID: 269426

Cast and credited roles

• Kiichi Nakai — Yoshio Nakategawa
• Saburo Tokito — Kenichi Iwata
• Mariko Ishihara — Harue Miyamoto
• Satomi Tezuka — Yoko Mizuno
• Shingo Yanagisawa — Minoru Nishidera
• Shoko Nakajima — Ayako Tanimoto

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1983-05-27; final listed air date 1983-07-29; episode order: 10.
• Season 2: premiered 1985-03-15; final listed air date 1985-06-07; episode order: 13.
• Season 3: premiered 1991-01-11; final listed air date 1991-03-22; episode order: 11.
• Season 4: premiered 1997-04-11; final listed air date 1997-07-04; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Fuzoroi no Ringotachi on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.