×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Ping Pong (live-action movie)

Have you seen this? want to / seen some / seen all

©2002 "Ping Pong" Film Partners.


Alternative title:
ピンポン (Japanese)
Plot Summary: At a young age, Yutaka Hoshino (Peco) is a table tennis fanatic who protects Makoto Tsukimoto (Smile) from bullying kids. As the years pass, they are both members of Katase High's table tennis club. Peco is very passionate about the game and dreams of playing professionally in Europe, but smile only plays it as a way to pass the time and, despite his natural talent, allows Peco to beat him out of consideration for his feelings. They are then confronted by Wenge Kong (China) from Shanghai, China, who defeats Peco in a friendly match and faces smile in the third round of the first inter-school competition.
Running time: 114 minutes
Vintage: 2002-07-20
Premiere date:
2002-07-20 (Japan)
Release dates: We have 1
Links: We have 1
News: Show:
Daily Briefs (Apr 9, 2014)
Fantasia Anime (Jul 6, 2004)
Appleseed Details (Dec 9, 2003)
Other articles: Show:
You can contribute information to this page, but first you must login or register

DVD (Region 1)
    Ping Pong (Sub.DVD) 2007-09-04 (from $42.95)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Fumihiko Sori
Screenplay: Kankurō Kudō
Original Manga: Taiyo Matsumoto
Art Director: Koichi Kanekatsu
Executive producer: Yasushi Shiina

Assistant Director: Shinsuke Ono
Cinematography: Akira Sakoh
Film Editing: Soichi Ueno
Gaffer: Koichi Watanabe
Music Director: Hiroshi Futami
Theme Song Performance:
Kōji Nakamura
SUPERCAR
Arata Iura as Smile (Makoto Tsukimoto)
Yōsuke Kubozuka as Peco (Yutaka Hoshino)

Kouji Ohkura as Akuma (Manabu Sakuma)
Naoto Takenaka as Butterfly Joe (Jō Koizumi)
Sam Lee as China (Kong Wenge)
Shidō Nakamura as Dragon (Ryūichi Kazama)

Asumi Miwa as Mūko
Chie Tanaka as Sanae
Huarong Weng as Kong's Coach
Kenichi Suemitsu as Masayuki Sanada
Kouen Kondou as Tago
Mari Natsuki as Obaba
Ryūichi Ōura as Akkun
Takahiro Hirano as Gomi
Yuri Mizutani as Mako Hattori
Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
Executive producer: Seiji Horibuchi
Producer: Hiromi Makepeace

DVD Menu Design: George Sakellariou (Music)
(none)
English companies
Associate Producer: Video Arts, Inc.
Licensed by: Viz Media
Logo Design: jaPRESS
Sleeve Design: jaPRESS

This encyclopedia is collaboratively edited by the users of this site
DISCLAIMER add information report an error lookup sources

Compare this anime's credits with others

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Anime anthology