Pride (2004)

Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only consider love as a game. Aki Murase is a woman who has been waiting for her lover who went abroad two years ago. These two persons start a relationship while frankly admitting to each other that it is only a love game. …The result is the unfolding of a drama of people with their respective pasts and with their pride as individuals.

• First Air Date: 2004-01-12
• Last Air Date: 2004-03-22
• Total Seasons: 1
• Total Episodes: 11
• Episode Runtime: 60 min.
• Network: Fuji TV
• Directors: Kensaku Sawada, Hirai Hideki, Isamu Nakae.
• Writer: Shinji Nojima