Battlefield Baseball (2003)

Original title

地獄甲子園

Directed by

Yūdai Yamaguchi

Genre

comedy film, comedy horror, musical film, zombie film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A high school baseball team faces rival players who seem undead and violently aggressive. The film mixes martial arts fights with bloody sports action and bizarre comedy.

chaoticover-the-topviolentabsurdcampyenergeticgoryunpredictable

What happens

Battlefield Baseball (Japanese: 地獄甲子園, Hepburn: Jigoku Kōshien; lit. "Hell Kōshien") is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi. The film is written by Gatarō Man, based on his manga series of the same name, and stars Tak Sakaguchi, Atsushi Itō, and Hideo Sakaki. It was produced by Ryuhei Kitamura. The film is a combination of several genres, mixing martial arts action with the clichés of the sports film—particularly skewering baseball, one of Japan's most popular high school sports—and the violence and brutality of a horror film. The film's bizarre—sometimes almost incoherent—plot, blood and gore, and unique comedy have given it something of a "cult" popularity in the Western world. The film was released on Region 1 DVD by Subversive Cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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