Yamapi's Summer Drama

So after all, it's been confirmed that Yamapi will act in a drama together with Kitagawa Keiko.
But it's not going to be a High School Musical (thank god!! XD).

There are 2 temporary titles for it:
マッチ・ポイント (Match Point)
ブザー・ビート～崖っぷちのヒーロー (Buzzer Beat ~ Gakeppuchi no Hero) (Hero on the edge)
Official Corner on FujiTV website (japanese)

As of now, official title is Buzzer Beat.
There's a movie Match Point with Scarlett Johansson, so it could be confusing if they'd stick with first title.

"Buzzer Beat" in basketball is when score is made a second before the end or at the same time as buzzer sound (like we often see in movies XD) So I guess it means Pi will fight hard during whole game to score deciding points at the end ;)

山下智久コメント
「今回のドラマはバスケットボールとラブストーリーの話です。見てくれた人が明日も頑張ろうと思ってくれるような明るくて楽しいドラマにしたいです。
　（若い人だけでなく）お父さんも一緒に見られる作品を作りたいと思います。」

Yamashita Tomohisa comment:
"This drama is a story about basketball and love.
People who'll watch it will think "Tomorrow I'll also do my best".
I'd like to make it a warm and enjoyable Drama.
(Not only young people) I'd like to do something that you can watch with your father"

Buzzer Beat article:
Daily Sports (japanese)
Sanspo (japanese) English translation by Joyuu
Sponichi (japanese)
Nikkan Sports (japanese)
Yomiuri (japanese)
Chunichi Sports (japanese)
Yahoo Japan - Drama Calendar (japanese)
MSN Sankei News (japanese)

English summary:
unleashthegeek - I've been following her blog during Akai Ito and Mei-chan no shitusji. She's wonderful for translating cast blogs and she's doing Junpei's for some time already. Be sure to check it out once in a while ;)

Other cast members:

Kitagawa Keiko (北川景子)


Aibu Saki (相武紗季)


Kanja Shihori (貫地谷しほり)


Mizobata Junpei (溝端淳平)


Hideaki Ito (伊藤英明 )


Kanuko Nobuaki (金子ノブアキ) (band: RIZE)


Maya Miki (真矢みき)


Nagai Masaru (永井大)


Credits: shon and ブザー・ビート comm @ mixi