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Title: Pride プライド
Telecast: 2004-01-12 to 2004-03-22
TV Station: Fuji TV
Viewership: 25.1%









Takuya is the captain and star player of an ice hockey team, who is greatly respected by his teammates. For him, hockey is serious business that fully occupies his mind, while he treats romance as if it were a game.

Yuko is a typical businesswoman, and is waiting for her boyfriend to return from studying architecture abroad. At this point in time however, he shows no sign of coming back. One day, Yuko's friends who are determined to find her a new boyfriend, invite her to watch an ice hockey game. There she sees Kimura for the first time.

After the game, Yuko and her friends join the players for a party celebrating their victory. Yuko, however, is not so excited to be there. When she leaves the party, she bumps into Kimura, who was slightly injured from a fight. They exchange e-mail addresses and part.

The sparks of mutual attraction are ignited in a second encounter between Yuko and Kimura, arranged with the help of her friends shortly after a party.

Sato has come as a replacement for the team's coach who has been hospitalized. Kimura has a lot of respect for the hospitalized coach. Unfortunately though, he can't stand Sato's way of doing things. Bringing with him a lot of coaching experience from overseas, Sato criticizes the former coach's strategies. Whenever Kimura and Sato see each other, they get into a quarrel—consequently influencing Kimura's behavior during games.

Seeing that his game ended in a brawl, Yuko visits Kimura to comfort him. But he tells her that she is being too friendly with him.

Yuko is hurt, Kimura is irritated, and his teammate Sakaguchi can't stand seeing Kimura like this...


Soundtrack and Theme Songs


1. Born to Love You ボーン・トゥ・ラヴ・ユー [Queen クイーン] I have the song,I can send it 2 u guyz if u want

2. Too Much Love Will Kill You [Queen クイーン] Also this song too


I was born to love you
With every single beat of my heart
Yes, I was born to take care of you
Every single day...

I was born to love you
With every single beat of my heart
Yes, I was born to take care of you
Every single day of my life

You are the one for me
I am the man for you
You were made for me
You're my ecstasy
If I was given every opportunity
I'd kill for your love

So take a chance with me
Let me romance with you
I'm caught in a dream
And my dream's come true
It's so hard to believe
This is happening to me
An amazing feeling
Comin' through

I wanna love you
I love every little thing about you
I wanna love you, love you, love you
Born - to love you
Born - to love you
Yes I was born to love you
Born - to love you
Born - to love you
Every single day - of my life

An amazing feeling
Coming through

Yes I was born to love you
Every single day of my life

Go, I love you babe
Yes I was born to love you
I wanna love you, love you, love you
I wanna love you
I get so lonely, lonely, lonely
Yeah, I want to love you
Yeah, give it to me


Actor/Actress Cast (11)


Kimura Takuya
木村拓哉
里中ハル
Takeuchi Yuko
竹内結子
村瀬亜樹
Sakaguchi Kenji
坂口憲二
堀田大和
Nakagoshi Noriko
中越典子
相澤百合
Sato Ryuta
佐藤隆太
島村真琴
Megumi
石川知佳
Takizawa Saori
滝沢沙織
園田冴子
Ishida Yuriko
石田ゆり子
安西容子
Tokito Saburo
時任三郎
安西健吾
Ichikawa Somegoro
市川染五郎
池上友則
Sato Koichi
佐藤浩市
兵頭雄一郎














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[MissMonika]

PRIDE!! YES!! My absolute FAVORITE Kimura Takuya drama. Sooo awesome. Ok, I admit, the hockey scenes really sucked but the overall story was great. I love the chemistry between Halu and Aki

"Maybe. Must be" Hehehe

[novemberbaby]

It's my favorite Kimura Takuya drama. THe hockey scenes are filmed beautifully and you can really feel how proud Halu is of his sport. I like it when he reaches for his left shoulder during each game.

[Sailorprinzess]

I think there is a tie between Pride and Long Vacation for being my favorite Takuya drama. Yet I really do like this drama a lot. I thought Takuya had amazing chemistry with Yuko.

[apple red]

Very Romantic drama. It was the most romantic dorama i've seen. Most dorama wasnt as romantic. But this one is different...

[coolsmurf]

Very excellent drama, great cast, good plot, nice theme of ice hockey although its only comes at the end of each episode normally.

the music is one of the best, u can hear it being played in many other productions throughout Asia too...that explains it

[autuymnrain]

aww. loved this series. great cast and story and the ost was awesome

[philmein]

One of my all time favorite dramas of all time.

[Sky's Crying]

I loved Pride so so so much. It started my Kimura Takuya obsession lol.

[MissMonika]

Very excellent drama, great cast, good plot, nice theme of ice hockey although its only comes at the end of each episode normally.

the music is one of the best, u can hear it being played in many other productions throughout Asia too...that explains it

I love how Queen is the theme song and other Queen songs are put in perfectly in almost every episode. Soo awesome.

[coolsmurf]

some info of all the Queen songs i got from somewhere, if you are interested, read on

Here are the songs featured in "Pride". Beside the titles are numbers representing the episode in which the song is being played. Episodes that are not listed means that no new songs were being played. Songs with * are my recommendations...

Note: All songs are sung by Queen.

I Was Born to Love You (Theme Song) *
We Will Rock You (1) **
Fat Bottomed Girls (1) *
Long Away (1)
Headlong (1)
Dear Friends (1) *
Crazy Little Thing Called Love (2)
Too Much Love Will Kill You (2)
You're My Best Friend (2)
Friends Will Be Friends (3)
Somebody To Love (4) *
Another One Bites the Dust (4)
Let Me Live (5)
Who Wants To Live Forever (5)
Party (6)
Dancer (6)
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy (6) *
Misfire (7) *
Man On The Prowl (7)
These Are The Days Of Our Lives (Last Ep)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Last Ep) **
We Are The Champions (Last Ep)
3Peace...
Orenji

[strawberrynkiwi]

It was highly enjoyable. I don't like Yuko though. Takuya was alright, but I did like the whole hockey team spirit. The ending was a disappointment. I gotta agree with everyone, OST is the best. I dunno, everyone said it was a REALLY REALLY good drama, so I had high expectation. So I was a little disappointed.

[happybi]

Absolutely LOVED this drama.. Best Takuya drama IMO.. And also one of my all time favorite Japanese drama ever!!!.. ekekekkek.. Excellent cast, plot, and OST.. Love Takuya with Yuko.. and everyone else rocks!!!

[Aoijen]

Yeah I have this AVI from Fansub I dun have time to watch it I hope If I have full time I will watch it from my Lovely Laptop TOSHIBA (it's my life) I can't life without this my laptop and desktop computer to...

[sweet_treats1812]

PRIDE!!! omg, i LOVE this drama~ second only to orange days i belive but it's a very close race!!! i need to thank my friend over and over for introducing me to pride..takuya and yuko's chemistry in this drama is amazing! the story is wonderful too~ i can never get tired of watching it..

thanks for making this thread!

anem!!! hope u find this thread and post smthing!

[Pseudonym]

I went to great lengths to find this drama and was not disappointed one bit. Many people like Kimura with Matsu (from "Hero" and "Love Generation") but I like him with Yuko more. Kimura always plays his the roles of his characters as if he was really them. Plus, he pulls off great chemistry with his love interest in his dramas.

[cystaltears]

i LOVED this drama.... this drama got me into hockey..and sooo into Queen...

[MKYOO]

ahhhhhhhhh kimura takuya! i love this drama! i just finished watching this last week<3333

[luckycharm]

I love it!
It was so sweeeeeet
besides, takuya kimura is love!

[PandaKiss]

I seriously LOVE this drama.
I did't watch the first few episodes.
But I fell in love with Takuya after this!
Though, he's a bit old.
So hot!
x]