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.
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3 films
Cast
4 people
Gisaburō Sugii Director · Mitsuru Adachi Story Hiroaki Serizawa Composer
First release April 5, 1983 · Produced in Japan · Production Group TAC, TOHO
Production
Fuji Television Network
Production
Group TAC
Production
TOHO
Production
Japan
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Original title
ナイン ＜オリジナル版＞
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · April 5, 1983
TV
Japan · September 16, 1983
Theatrical · Original Version
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