Food Fight (TV series)

Food Fight (フードファイト, Fūdo Faito) was a Japanese television drama starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Kyoko Fukada. It first aired in Japan from 1 July 2000 to 30 September 2000. Moderately successful, its average rating was 17.5% while its peak rating reached 21.5%.

Cast[]

• Ihara Mitsuru – Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
• Tamura Manami – Kyoko Fukada
• Miyazono Saeka – Rie Miyazawa
• Miyazono Kyosaku – Shiro Sano
• Kisaragi Eiichi – Kakei Toshio
• Crow's voice – Takuya Kimura

Characters[]

The fact that Takuya Kimura voiced Kyutaro was kept secret until the very end

• Ihara Mitsuru – a custodian working for a large food producer after growing up in an orphanage who is secretly a champion of a food eating competition. After winning he usually proclaims his stomach is as huge as the size of the universe.
• Tamura Manami – a college student who volunteers for an orphanage where Mitsuru was raised
• Miyazono Saeka – the wife of Miyazono; she married him solely for money
• Miyazono Kyosaku – the head of the large food production company who secretly sponsors the underground "food fight"; the eleventh challenger
• Kisaragi Eiichi – the ninth challenger of the "food fight"; after deciding that Mitsuru is a natural-born "food fighter" he analyzes the challengers and gives helpful advice to him
• Kyutaro – a talking black bird who is a friend and partner of Mitsuru; voiced by Takuya Kimura

The challengers[]

The list runs in a chronological order with the food of each challenger's choice.

• Yoneyama Katsuyoshi – ramen
• Gonzales Iwagami – spicy curry
• Fujishiro Yukiko – Kakigori
• Manaka Hiromi – Mochi
• Kagami Shunsuke – yakitori
• Ihara Satoko – Croquette
• Carlos Okamura – steak
• Kisaragi Eiichi - Hiyashi Chuka/Cold noodles
• Sugawara Kentaro – sushi
• Miyazono Kyosaku - Onigiri

Summary[]

The president of a large food production company combines gourmet eating and gambling into an underground eating contest, or "Food Fight," in the basement of his company. After growing up in an orphanage, Mitsuru Ihara starts working as a custodian at the large food producer. The pleasant, kind Ihara often visits his former home, pretending to be an important business man, not the blue-collar cleaner that he really is. He also has a bigger secret, which is, he is the reigning champion of the underground eating competition held at the company. In it, two contestants battle to see who can pack away more food within a set time limit. The noble Ihara, with nine consecutive wins, always donates the prize money anonymously to his orphanage, despite the fact that he wins millions. The circumstances surrounding his victories, however, are often surprising and usually unusual, perhaps unrealistic. He also wins by a very small margin, by only 1 point in most cases.

Trivia[]

• Three former members of Morning Musume (Natsumi Abe, Maki Goto, and Yuko Nakazawa), and singer Ryuichi Kawamura made guest appearances on this show as themselves.

External links[]

• Food Fight at J-dorama