The Way to The Gold Medals (1980)
About Soviet and Japanese volley-ball players who are both rivals and friends. The events cover the period from the 1976 Montreal Olympics to the eve of XXII Olympics in Moscow.
Directors:
Junya Satō, Nikita Orlov.
Writers:
Hirō Matsuda, Anatoliy Stepanov, Yuri Lakerbai.
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Teruhiko Saigō as Shohei Yoshioka |
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Megumi Isogai as Megumi Miki |
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Tatyana Tashkova as Tanya Karpova |
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Tamao Nakamura as Ine Miki |
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Inara Guliyeva as Svetlana Sergeeva |
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Valeri Ryzhakov as Mikhail Vasilyevich Kamenetskiy |
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Mikhail Boyarskiy as Mikhail Bartenev |
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Aleksei Mokrousov as |
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Anatoliy Romashin as Nikolay Sergeevich Tvertsov |
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Tetsuro Tamba as President Sakakibara |
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Tatsuya Mihashi as Kenzo Masuda |
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Mizuho Suzuki as |
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Sofiya Pilyavskaya as |
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Hirohisa Nakata as |
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Liliya Zakharova as |
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Harumi Tokunaga as Japanese interpreter |
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Natalya Tabakova as |
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Tomokazu Miura as Narrator (voice) |
| Sound | Aleksey Rybnikov | Music |
| Directing | Junya Satō | Director |
| Camera | Emil Gulidov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Hirō Matsuda | Screenplay |
| Writing | Anatoliy Stepanov | Screenplay |
| Art | Tatyana Lapshina | Art Direction |
| Directing | Nikita Orlov | Director |
| Art | Noriyoshi Ikeya | Art Direction |
| Writing | Yuri Lakerbai | Screenplay |
| Camera | Hiroyuki Namiki | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Takeshi Tamura | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Anatoliy Dudorov | Assistant Director |