Major: The Ball of Friendship (2008)
Original title: メジャー 友情の一球
Major: The Ball of Friendship is a 2008 Japanese-language animation movie directed by Takao Kato, with a running time of 1h 40m. It stars Motoko Kumai, Showtaro Morikubo and Fuyuka Ono.
Goro briefly returns to Japan after a triumphant campaign in the US. He is heading towards Fukuoka where he played baseball when he was a fifth grader. Having just moved into a new town, this is where Goro faced a critical point in his life.
Cast
- Motoko Kumai as Goro Honda
- Showtaro Morikubo as Goro Honda
- Fuyuka Ono as Toshiya Satō
- Junko Noda as Momoko Shigeno
- Rie Kugimiya as Daisuke Komori
- Takehito Koyasu as Shigeharu Honda
- Yuuko Sasamoto as Kaoru Shimizu
- Shunsuke Sakuya as Hideaki Shigeno
- Jun Fukuyama as Seiya Kinoshita
- Kenji Nojima as Masato Koga
- Daisuke Ono as Arthur
- Mitsuo Iwata as Max