Yakyū-kyō no Uta (1977)
- Directed by
- Akira Katō
- Genre
- Action, Drama, Sports
- Country
- Japan
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Yuki Mizuhara wanted to go to college to study veterinary medicine but ended up playing baseball instead. The story follows her as a female athlete in a male-dominated sport in 1970s Japan.
determinedupbeatwhimsicalsports-focusednostalgicearnestmodestcharacter-driven
What happens
Song of Baseball Enthusiasts (Japanese: 野球狂の詩, Hepburn: Yakyū-kyō no Uta) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima. It follows Yūki Mizuhara, a young woman who wants to do veterinary medicine at college but instead she became a baseball player. It was originally serialized in the Kodansha's Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine between 1972 and 1976 and has been adapted into several spin-off manga, a live-action film, an anime television series, an anime film, and a Japanese television drama. In 1973, it received the 4th Kōdansha Literature Culture Award for children's manga. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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