Movie: Robot Contest
Romaji: Robokon
Japanese: ロボコン
Director: Tomoyuki Furumaya
Writer: Tomoyuki Furumaya
Producer: Hironori Miyagawa
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Release Date: September 13, 2003
Runtime: 118 min.
Production Company: Shogakukan Productions, NTV, Toho
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Synopsis
Satomi Hazawa (Masami Nagasawa) is a student at a technical college. One day, a teacher informs her that she is short of credits and offers her the choice of more courses or join the secondary Robot Club as credit. Satomi opts for the Robot Club.
She then joins the school's B Robot Club and must prepare with her team for the upcoming RoboCon contest which involves 124 teams from 62 different technical colleges. Satomi is the operator of the robot ...
Cast
Masami Nagasawa - Satomi Hazawa
Shun Oguri - Koichi Aida
Atsushi Ito - Yotsuya
Takashi Tsukamoto - Kazuyoshi Takeuchi
Kazuma Suzuki - Zushi sensei
Risa Sudo - Sasaki sensei
Tsuyoshi Ujiki - Yoshiyuki Hazawa
Hideko Yoshida - Obaba
YosiYosi Arakawa - Gohara
Sei Hiraizumi - Wakita sensei
Awards
"Rookie of the Year" (Masami Nagasawa) - 2004 (27th) Japan Academy Prize - February 20, 2004