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Ikebukuro West Gate Park (live-action TV)



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Alternative title:
IWGP 
池袋ウエストゲートパーク (Japanese) 
Genres: slice of life 
Plot Summary: Living in an area known for its juvenile crime, 20 year-old Makoto has become a member of a youth gang called the G Boys. Known for his cool head and ability to get things done, Makoto becomes a key trouble-shooter for the gang by diffusing tense situations and keeping his friends out of harm's way. However, the death of his so-called girlfriend and an escalating turf war with a rival gang threaten to be more than Makoto can handle. 
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Number of episodes: 11 
Episode titles: We have 11
Vintage: 2000-04-14 to 2000-06-23 
Opening Theme:
"Boukyaku no Sora (忘却の空)" by Sads 
Insert song:
"(Oh) Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison (ep 7) 
"YOU ARE THE ONE" by JENNIFER (ep 8) 
Official website:
TBS - IWGPark 2000 (Japanese) 
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director:
Yukihiko Tsutsumi  (7 episodes
eps 1-2, 5-6, 9-11
) 
Screenplay: Kankurō Kudō 
Unit Director: Yūichirō Hirakawa (eps 1-11) 
Music:
Takefumi Haketa 
Original creator: Ira Ishida 
Art design:
Yukari Aoki (eps 1-11) 
Producer: Aki Isoyama 

Art Producer:
Yukari Aoki (eps 1-11) 
Art Production:
yukio saito (eps 1-11) 
Art Track: Jiro Watanabe 
Assistant Director:
Hidenori Iyoda (6 episodes
eps 3-4, 7-8, 10-11
) 
Mitsuhiro Yamada (6 episodes
eps 1-2, 5-6, 9, 11
) 
Yasutomo Ikebe (ep 11) 
Assistant producer:
Ryūji Ichiyama (eps 1-11) 
CA:
Yukako Ogura (ep 11) 
Car Stunts: Masanobu Amemiya 
CG:
Kumiko Hosaka (ep 11) 
Compilation: Shinichi Miyagi 
Costume Vehicle: Toshio Shimizu 
Costuming:
Yasuhide Oosako (ep 11) 
Dance Choreography: Kahori Fujiwara (ep 8) 
Digital Photography: Tomoya Nagase (ep 11) 
Editing:
Masahiro Ōno 
Extra Work: Yoshio Tsuchida 
Fixtures: Hisao Kishi (ep 11) 
Gun Effects: Kikuo Notomi 
Hair Makeup:
Yūko Fujii (ep 11) 
Holding Tools:
Yuka Kozawa (eps 1-11) 
Illumination: Kaori Sakamoto (ep 11) 
Internet Publicity:
Ikue Fukumori  (ep 11) 
Internet Publicty: Susumu Okano (eps 1-11) 
Lighting:
Yuji Shiraishi (ep 11) 
MA Operator: Ryōichi Nakano (ep 11) 
Medicine Supervisor: Kunihiko Tsutsumi (ep 6) 
Microphone: Takeshi Okuyama 
Music producer: Hirohide Shida 
Photography:
Yasushi Shimura (ep 11) 
Photography Vehicle: Yūki Saitō 
Plant Decorator: Yasufumi Shishido (ep 11) 
Production Advancement:
Noriko Tezuka (ep 11) 
Production Head:
Mitsuru Hagiwara (6 episodes
eps 2, 4, 6, 9-11
)Nobuhiro Hanayama (6 episodes
eps 1-7 odd, 8, 11
) 
Production manager:
Shingo Nakagawa 
Production Vehicle: Kanemitsu Matsuki 
Program Desk: Michiko Ozawa 
Program Publicity: Shinji Suzuki 
Set Decoration:
Keiji Tokuda (ep 11) 
Sound:
Hideaki Imogawa (5 episodes
eps 3-4, 7, 9, 11
)Hisao Usui (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 5-6, 11
) 
Tetsuya Hirono (ep 11) 
Sound Design: Tomoko Watanabe 
Sound Effects: Hiromi Ogawa 
Sound Vehicle: Keita Odawara 
Special Machinery: Hideo Sato 
Special Makeup: Yuichi Matsui (ep 11) 
Stage Operator: Kentaro Kudo (ep 11) 
Stage Setting: Michio Tateyama 
Still Images:
Mari Tamehiro (ep 11) 
Stunts: Shuhei Sasaki 
Tattoos: Ryoji Kasumi (ep 3) 
Theme Song Arrangement:
Takayuki Hijikata 
Theme Song Composition: Kiyoharu 
Theme Song Lyrics: Kiyoharu 
Theme Song Performance: Sads 
Timekeeping:
Ayako Okuhira (6 episodes
eps 1-2, 5-6, 9, 11
)Kazumi Suzuki (6 episodes
eps 3-4, 7-8, 10-11
)Kei Ichikawa (ep 11) 
Title Backdrop: Kenji Enda 
Vehicles:
Yasumasa Wakabayashi (ep 11) 
Visual Effects:
Yusei Hirano (ep 11) 
Tomoya Nagase as Makoto Majima 

Ai Katō as Hikaru Shibusawa 
Aiko Morishita as Ritsuko Majima (Makoto's mother) 
Issei Takahashi as Kazunori Morinaga 
Kazuhiro Nishijima as Kyoichi Ozaki 
Ken Watanabe as Reiichiro Yokoyama 
Kenji Sakaguchi as "Doberman" Yamanoi 
Kitarō as Detective Yoshioka 
Kouichi Sudou as "Denpa-kun" 
Koyuki as Kana Matsui 
Ryuta Sato as Masa Mori 
Satoshi Tsumabuki as Saru Saito 
Shin Yazawa as Chiaki 
Tomohisa Yamashita as Shun Mizuno 
Wakana Sakai as Rika Nakamura 
Yōsuke Kubozuka as Takashi "King" Ando 

Arata Furuta as Shinichi Egashira/Hebii (ep 4) 
Atsuhiro Neda as G-Boys (eps 1-11) 
Atsushi Ida as G-Boys (eps 1-11) 
Brother Korn as Hasunuma (eps 7-11) 
Dice-K as Black Angels (ep 8) 
Dustin Shirai as G-Boys (eps 1-11) 
Fujimaru Suzuki as Hiroki Tada (ep 6) 
Fumishige Otoguro as
Black Angels (eps 9-10) 
G-Boys (eps 1-8, 11) 
Ginpuncho as Hiroki's Mother (ep 6) 
Hakuryuu as Hiroki's Father (ep 6) 
Hiroto Oe as Black Angels (ep 11) 
Kankurō Kudō as Samurai (ED sequence; ep 11) 
Kaoru Sugita as Kazuko Shibusawa (ep 10) 
Kazuki Maehara as Sakurai 
Kenichi Endō as Mizutaka (eps 3, 7, 11) 
Kenji Aoki as Shoko/Shou Kaiyama (ep 5) 
Kenji Noritomo as G-Boys (eps 1-11) 
Kenjirō Tsuda as Akira (ep 8) 
Korn as Hasunuma (eps 7-11) 
Kosuke Suga as Black Angels (ep 8) 
Maaya Ono as Asumi (ep 5) 
Masashi Endō as
Erito Tada (ep 6) 
G-Boys (eps 1-11) 
Masayuki Sasamoto as G-Boys (eps 9-10) 
Mayo Kawasaki as Himself 
Mii as Michi/Isabelle Naito (ep 7) 
Mitsuyo Nemoto as Michi/Isabelle Naito (as Mie; ep 7) 
Mitsuyoshi Akimoto as G-Boys (eps 1-11) 
Narushi Ikeda as Hikaru's Father (ep 10) 
Rie Minemura as Cathy (eps 10-11) 
Rottfi Yousef as Sayed Ali Abdul Rohi Akmedhi Heroshimi (eps 4, 8, 11) 
Sadao Abe as Sergeant Hamaguchi 
Seminosuke Murasugi as Tsukasa Sato/Gomi-san (ep 5) 
Shigeru Motoki as Black Angels (ep 8) 
Shingo Michinaka as Shinya (eps 7, 11) 
Shinobu Kawamata as Mr. Iwabuchi (ep 2) 
Shoko Ikezu as Jessie 
Shūichirō Moriyama as Narrator 
Shun Oguri as Yoshikazu (ep 2) 
Takafumi Nobunaga as Black Angels (ep 8) 
Tatsuya Nishi as
Black Angels (eps 9-10) 
G-Boys (eps 1-8, 11) 
Tetsu Watanabe as Tetsu Ando 
Tomohiro Waki as G-Boys (eps 1-11) 
Toshihiko Satō as G-Boys (eps 9-10) 
Yoshimi Okada as G-Boys (eps 9-10) 
Yuki Yoshinaga as G-Boys (eps 1-11) 
Yūko Andō as Kaoru 

Aiko Yokoyama (eps 3, 7) 
Akiko Yagishita (ep 8) 
Anna Odaka (eps 10-11) 
Asami Kawai (ep 3) 
Atsushi Yamanishi (ep 2) 
Ayumi Yamaguchi (ep 8) 
Bucchi Busha (ep 2) 
Chika Nakagami (ep 9) 
Daisuke Nishimura (ep 6) 
Eiji Nakamura (ep 4) 
Emi Matsumoto (ep 2) 
Eriko Mikamo (ep 7) 
Fumiaki Matsuoka (ep 2) 
Futoshi Miyogawa (ep 9) 
Gento Takahashi (ep 6) 
Gyuzo (Dengeki Network; eps 9-10) 
Hana Aizawa (ep 1) 
Haruka Oki (ep 2) 
Hidenori Oono (ep 7) 
Hime (ep 6) 
Hiroko Satō (pro bowler; eps 1, 8, 11) 
Hiromichi Sakuraba (ep 3) 
Hiroshi Nokoma (ep 3) 
Hiroshi Oomori (ep 8) 
Hiroshi Uematsu (ep 8) 
Hitoshi Takahashi (ep 7) 
Isao Nonaka (ep 4) 
Isao Yatsu (eps 1, 8) 
Jiro Shibata (ep 4) 
Jun Matsumoto (ep 2) 
Jun Ueno (ep 6) 
Junichi Gamou (ep 4) 
Kahori Asakura (ep 3) 
Kana Asou (ep 9) 
Kanako Nishimura (ep 5) 
Kaori Iwata (ep 5) 
Kaori Shibayama (ep 8) 
Katsumi Muramatsu (eps 3, 7) 
Kazuaki Hankai (ep 4) 
Kazuharu Kawauchi (ep 6) 
Kazuki Maehara 
Kazuki Ogawa (ep 4) 
Kazuyo Aoki (ep 7) 
Kei Hirajima (ep 4) 
Kei Hirosawa (ep 10) 
Kei Kagaya (eps 1, 6) 
Kei Ujiie (eps 1, 8) 
Keiko Miyazaki (ep 6) 
Keiko Shinobe (ep 7) 
Keizo Tanaka (ep 1) 
Kenji Haga (ep 2) 
Kenji Nakamori (ep 10) 
Kenji Yamagami (ep 6) 
Kimiko Sekiguchi (ep 5) 
Kin'ya Kikuchi (ep 3) 
Kōji Suzuki (ep 2) 
Kouta Mizumori (ep 8) 
Kyoko Yuhara (ep 1) 
Maria Asakura (ep 5) 
Maru Iwata (ep 6) 
Masa (eps 9-11) 
Masafumi Hatanaka (ep 1) 
Masafumi Senoo (ep 8) 
Masahiko Kawahara (ep 7) 
Masashi Ogawa (ep 8) 
Masaya Seto (ep 2) 
Masayuki Sasamoto (ep 2) 
Meiken Ito (ep 8) 
Michihiko Hamada (ep 3) 
Michinori Tooi (ep 1) 
Midoriko Kimura (ep 3) 
Miho Yamashiro (ep 2) 
Minoru Suzuki (ep 8) 
Mitsuko Abe (ep 8) 
Mitsuru Inaba (ep 2) 
Mizue Date (ep 1) 
Motoko Nagino (ep 2) 
Nao Osada (eps 2, 7, 10-11) 
Naoki Matsuda (ep 4) 
Naoko Yokomura (ep 1) 
Natsumi Ozawa (ep 8) 
Nobuyuki Asaki (ep 11) 
Nobuyuki Ogawa (ep 2) 
Raishin Kodama (ep 8) 
Rara Arakawa (ep 9) 
Rei Igarashi (ep 2) 
Ruka Aoi (ep 3) 
Ruka Mori (ep 6) 
Ryōhei Kimura (ep 1) 
Ryohei Nakamura (ep 8) 
Ryoka Misaki (ep 1) 
Ryosuke Tadaki (eps 2-3) 
Ryuji Ootake (ep 10) 
Sachi Funaki (ep 10) 
Sadao Nagawa (ep 8) 
Samuel Bob Enning (eps 2, 9-11) 
Saori Aihara (ep 2) 
Sarutoki Minagawa (ep 1) 
Satoshi Uno (ep 3) 
Satoshi Yokomichi (ep 1) 
Seiichiro Kobayashi (eps 1-2, 11) 
Shinobu Kawamata (ep 7) 
Shinsuke Kyo (ep 10) 
Suzuka Misaki (ep 11) 
Tadashi Okada (eps 2, 8) 
Taisuke Imai (ep 2) 
Takahiro Kawamoto (ep 2) 
Takahiro Tamura (ep 8) 
Takanori Hamachika (ep 3) 
Takanori Ohyama (ep 1) 
Takashi Miyazawa (ep 11) 
Takashi Shu (ep 2) 
Takayuki Bise (eps 9, 11) 
Takeharu Morimoto (ep 3) 
Takuhiro Sugiyama (ep 1) 
Tatsuya Nakayama (ep 1) 
Tetsu Watanabe 
Tetsuhiro Ikeda (ep 7) 
Tomoki Murano (eps 9-10) 
Tomomi Ogawa (ep 8) 
Toshimasa Niino (eps 1-2, 9-10) 
Toshiro Igarashi (ep 2) 
Tsutomu Hori (ep 6) 
Yasuhiro Ito (ep 6) 
Yōhachi Shimada (ep 8) 
Yoko Motohashi (ep 11) 
Yōshichi Shimada (ep 7) 
Youichirou Kawano (eps 1-2, 9) 
Yuki Kurita (ep 10) 
Yuko Narumi (ep 8) 
Yumi Hasegawa (ep 5) 
Yumi Okiai (ep 3) 
Yumiko Shiina (ep 6) 
Yuto Negishi (ep 6) 
Yūya Sugiyama (ep 1) 
Japanese companies
Art Cooperation:
AVALANCHE (7 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-10 even, 11
) 
Kazuma Megane (6 episodes
eps 2-4, 6-7, 11
) 
M-ERO (6 episodes
eps 1, 3, 6, 8, 10-11
) 
Osewaya (7 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-11 odd
) 
SAC (6 episodes
eps 1-3, 5, 7, 9
) 
Yellow Cab (eps 2-10 even) 
Broadcaster: Tokyo Broadcasting System 
Casting:
Zephile (eps 1-4, 8) 
Cooperation:
Tamco 
Costume Cooperation:
BOOP (8 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-8, 11
) 
jagro jagro (6 episodes
eps 1, 3-4, 9-11
) 
Le souk (6 episodes
eps 4 by BASILE, 7-11
) 
SCOOP (6 episodes
eps 1-3, 6-7, 11
) 
Yamafujiya (eps 1-11) 
Photography Cooperation:
WHITE CABIN (eps 8, 11) 
Production:
Tokyo Broadcasting System 
Production Cooperation: Office Crescendo 
Sound Effects: Oizumi Onei 
Theme Song Label: Toshiba EMI 

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