Golden Bowl

Title: Golden Bowl
Episodes: 11
Genre: Sports, Romance



Synopsis: Japanese-Taiwanese heartthrob Takeshi Kaneshiro stars as Akutagawa, a securities analyst who relieves the stress of sitting at a computer screen all day with nightly sessions at the local bowling alley. The young salaryman is so good, in fact, that the alley's elderly owner tells him he's pro material and bequeaths him his own "golden ball," since he won't need it anymore. It turns out a local developer is trying to convince the owner to sell the bowling alley, whose business has never been the same since the end of Japan's huge "bowling boom" of the late '60s and early '70s. The developer wants to tear it down and build a love hotel.

Of course, the longtime employees of the alley, as well as the manager of the planetarium that's located on the roof and a former pro who frequents the establishment, oppose the sale and try to convince the owner not to cave in. The developer comes up with an idea: He and the owner will bowl for the building. There is also a romantic subplot involving an upper-middle-class housewife (Hitomi Kuroki) who uses the same locker that Akutagawa does, but in the daytime.

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Episode 2:
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Episode 3
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Episode 4
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Episode 5
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Episode 6
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Episode 7 [links updated 2007.10.22]
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Episode 8
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Episode 9
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Episode 10 [links updated 2007.10.22]
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Episode 11 (FINAL) (Ep. 11 links updated 10 June 2006)
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