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人間の翼 最後のキャッチボール (1996)

人間の翼 最後のキャッチボール poster
Genre
teen film
Country
Japan

How it feels

This black and white film follows a Japanese baseball pitcher in the 1940s who plays professionally before being drafted into World War Two. It shows his brief youth and the painful transition from sports to war.

melancholicnostalgicquietly devastatingbittersweetslow-burnhistoricalpersonalpoignant

What happens

『人間の翼 最後のキャッチボール』(にんげんのつばさ さいごのキャッチボール)は、牛島秀彦の小説『消えた春』を原作とした1996年の日本映画。白黒映画。 戦前のプロ野球で、名古屋軍(現・中日ドラゴンズ)のエースとして活躍した石丸進一の生涯を描いた作品。彼がやがて召集を受け、神風特別攻撃隊員として航空特攻に赴くまでの短い青春を描く。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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