Fighting Girl

{{More citations needed|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | genre = Drama | camera = | runtime = 54 minutes | creator = | developer = | writer = | director = {{Plainlist| * Takao Kinoshita * Hidetomo Matsuda }} | producer = Kazuki Nakayama | executive_producer = | starring = {{Plainlist| * Kyoko Fukada * Yoon Son-ha * Shigeru Izumiya * Yūki Amami }} | voices = | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | composer = | end_theme = "Seed" by Time FellowShip | country = Japan | location = | language = Japanese | network = Fuji TV | first_aired = {{Start date|2001|07|04|df=y}} | last_aired = {{End date|2001|09|19|df=y}} | num_series = 1 | num_episodes = 12 | list_episodes = | related = }} '''''Fighting Girl''''' is a Japanese television drama starring Kyoko Fukada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=236271|script-title=ja:TV ファイティング・ガール|accessdate=2015-06-27|publisher=Stingray|work=allcinema|language=Japanese}}</ref>

==Synopsis== Sayoko is a tough 19-year-old with ambition, energy and nowhere to direct it. Her father clearly favors her blind 16-year-old sister. Junior college is unstimulating. She is fired from her part-time job in a dress shop because she is too diligent at catching shoplifters and slaps them around a bit when she does. Even her boyfriend opts out for a more docile girl, but Sayoko doesn't think she is tough enough.

Coming home on the train, she nonchalantly puts on her makeup and changes her shirt, oblivious to the other passengers' silent glares, until Ami (South Korean actress Yoon Son-ha) confronts her. They stare each other down and Sayoko gets off. The passengers commend the Korean student but she scoffs at them too, asking, "Instead of praising me, why don't you say something yourself?"

A few days later Ami is also the one who comes to the aid of Sayoko's sister, who has sprained her ankle when pushed on the platform. Ami can't understand whether the Japanese are kind or cold. They all look worried about you but no one steps forward to help, she tells the girl.

In gratitude, Sayoko's poor father invites Ami for expensive sushi. She shows up with five friends to make things more cheery and in doing so shows a lack of cross-cultural understanding herself.

Life gets more complicated when Sayoko goes to the beach to sulk and comes across a frustrated rich kid who she fends off with her considerable kickboxing skills. She loses her new belly-button jewel in the process, a guarantee they will meet again.

==Cast== * Kyoko Fukada as Sayoko Yoshida * Yoon Son-ha as Ami Sō * Aya Hirayama as Fuyumi Yoshida * Shigeru Izumiya as Mitsuo Kurimura * Yūki Amami as Shōko Mitsui * Kenichi Hagiwara as Yūzō Yoshida

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==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/fighting/}} {{in lang|ja}} * {{IMDb title|0291612}}

{{S-start}} {{Succession box | before = ''Watashi o Ryokan ni Tsuretette'' {{Start date|2001|04|11|df=y}} - {{End date|2001|06|27|df=y}} | title = Fuji TV Wednesday Dramas Wednesdays 21:00 - 21:54 (JST) | years = | after = ''Suiyōbi no Jōji'' ({{Start date|2001|10|10|df=y}} - {{End date|2001|12|19|df=y}}) |-}} {{s-end}}

Category:Japanese drama television series Category:2001 in Japanese television Category:2001 Japanese television series debuts Category:2001 Japanese television series endings Category:Fuji Television dramas Category:Television shows about Zainichi Korean people