Mitsuru Adachi

유명한 야구 만화인 를 영화화했다. 을 만들었던 이누도 잇신 감독이 만들었다.

유명한 야구 만화인 를 영화화했다. 을 만들었던 이누도 잇신 감독이 만들었다.

Trying to find his own game of baseball, and not that of his brothers, Tatsuya moves to America and pitches for a poor, struggling minor league baseball team called the Emeralds. Meanwhile, Minami is still in Japan, trying to find her own path after quitting gymnastics. Inspired by a photograph of her final performance, she becomes the photographers assistant.

Trying to find his own game of baseball, and not that of his brothers, Tatsuya moves to America and pitches for a poor, struggling minor league baseball team called the Emeralds. Meanwhile, Minami is still in Japan, trying to find her own path after quitting gymnastics. Inspired by a photograph of her final performance, she becomes the photographers assistant.

The movie starts out with Katsuhiko going to the US, with Kasumi and Yusaku seeing him off at Narita. Two years later, Katsuhiko is a professional racer, and comes back to Japan to race (and to marry Kasumi). Yusaku`s hobby is photography.

Due to sickness, the coach position of the Meisei High School baseball team is handed to Eijiro Kashiwaba. He is a ruthless man who forces the team to enter a Spartan training procedure. Tatsuya and Minami slowly discover stories about his past and wonder what his true intentions are.

쌍둥이 형제인 타츠야와 카즈야는 생긴 것은 똑같지만, 타츠야는 낙천적이고 카즈야는 매사에 노력하는 스타일이다. 둘은 이웃에 사는 미나미와 어린 시절부터 친하게 지내고, 친구였던 이들의 관계는 나이가 들면서 미묘하게 변해간다. 야구부의 에이스 투수인 카즈야는 미나미의 소원을 들어주기 위해 전국 대회에서 우승을 노리고 맹훈련을 하지만, 그의 마음을 알고 있는 타츠야는 빈둥대기만 하다가 권투부에 들어간다. 그러나 예선 결승이 벌어지던 날, 카즈야는 경기장으로 향하던 중 교통사고로 숨을 거둔다. 결국 타츠야는 동생의 뒤를 이어 야구부의 에이스가 되는데...

The Nine saga comes to a close with the third installment

Second part of the Nine film series

Just before entering Seishuu High School, track star Katsuya Niimi and judo champion Susumu Karasawa see a girl crying as the school loses a baseball game. The boys decide to join the team and improve it in order to make her smile. The girl turns out to be Yuri Nakao, daughter of the baseball coach, and they learn the baseball team will be shut down if it doesn't start winning. The series follows the three, as well as pitcher Eiji Kurahashi, as Niimi and Karasawa learn about baseball and what it means to be one of nine players on a team, as they work together through high school make it to Koushien.

Just before entering Seishuu High School, track star Katsuya Niimi and judo champion Susumu Karasawa see a girl crying as the school loses a baseball game. The boys decide to join the team and improve it in order to make her smile. The girl turns out to be Yuri Nakao, daughter of the baseball coach, and they learn the baseball team will be shut down if it doesn't start winning. The series follows the three, as well as pitcher Eiji Kurahashi, as Niimi and Karasawa learn about baseball and what it means to be one of nine players on a team, as they work together through high school make it to Koushien.

In summer 2005 an original promotional animation of 2.5 minutes length was produced by Shogakukan for the upcoming release of the Idol Ace manga by Adachi Mitsuru in the Weekly Young Sunday magazine.