City Without Baseball (2008)

Original title

無野之城

Directed by

Scud, Lawrence Ah Mon

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

III

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Hong Kong baseball players give their all in a city that barely knows the sport exists. Their personal lives and relationships unfold against empty stadiums and a general lack of public interest.

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What happens

City Without Baseball (Chinese: 無野之城; stylized: 無野の城; jyutping: mou4 je5 zi1 sing4) is a 2008 Hong Kong drama film starring Ron Heung and other members of the Hong Kong National Baseball Team. It is directed by South African-born Hong Kong filmmaker Lawrence Ah Mon, about a city where baseball is almost unknown, and where the team plays to empty stadia. The film explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society. The film is the first of seven such films by Scud (the production-crediting name of Hong Kong writer/film producer Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung). The six later films are: Permanent Residence in 2009, Amphetamine in 2010, Love Actually... Sucks! in 2011, Voyage in 2013, Utopians in 2015 and Thirty Years of Adonis in 2017. His eighth film, Apostles, was made in 2022, as was his ninth, Bodyshop. His tenth and final film, Naked Nations: Hong Kong Tribe, is currently in production. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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