Drucker in The Dug-Out
– The movie is about Minami Kawashima, a high school girl who becomes the manager of her school's base..
The movie is about Minami Kawashima, a high school girl who becomes the manager of her school's baseball team in place of her hospitalized friend, Yuki Miyata. She tries to lead the team to the National High School Baseball Championship by learning strategies from the business book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter Drucker, which she mistakenly bought.
04 Jun 2011
Japanese
Makoto Tanaka
Natsumi Iwasaki (based on the book by), Makoto Tanaka (screenplay), Natsumi Iwasaki (screenplay)
Sôsuke Ikematsu, Haruna Kawaguchi, Yô Ôizumi, Atsuko Maeda
Minami Kawashima (Atsuko Maeda), a female high school student, unexpectedly becomes the manager of Tokyo's Hodokubo High School baseball team. Soon enough, Minami realizes the team consists of talented players, but chronic underachievers. Minami then stumbles upon Peter Drucker's "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" - a classic book on management techniques. She then starts to implement ideas from the book to manage her baseball team into the Koshien National Championships.