Soccer 1994

Three high school students who love football and call themselves the "Golden Triangle", Toshihiko Tanaka, Kenji Shiraishi and Kazuhiro Hiramatsu, want to be classmates with Yoshiharu Kubo, who studied in Germany and has excellent football skills, and they are admitted to Kakegawa High School together. The biggest "myth" about Kubo is how he "single-handedly protected the supreme" and independently led Kakegawa High School, which had no competition experience at the time, to win the eighth place in the Japan National Middle School Football Competition. But the three of them never expected that the friendship they established with Kubo would rewrite their life's destiny, thus leading to a touching story intertwined with the blood and tears of youth... The film is adapted from the best-selling comic of the same name by Oshima Tsukasa. It describes the story of a high school football team in which players with different personalities unite to overcome numerous difficulties and pass the national competition in pursuit of victory. Starring in the film is the popular idol group SMAP. In addition, idol stars such as KINKI KIDS and the then Japan national team midfielder Ramos also appeared in the film. The plot of the film is not complicated, but the rhythm is tight, the style is lively, the content is inspirational, and exciting. It is a typical youth passion work, and the cast of heavyweight idol stars makes it even more charming. This film was selected for the 1994 Japan Professional Film Awards