A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Direction
Umin Boya makes baseball feel like warfare and poetry simultaneously.
Cinematography
Those sugarcane fields and dust-choked diamonds are absolutely gorgeous.
Acting
Masatoshi Nagase's Coach Kondo is all barely-contained rage and desperate hope.
Director
Umin Boya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Kano team was the first non-Japanese squad to reach Koshien's championship game—a feat no Taiwanese team has matched since.
The film sparked debates in Taiwan about whether it glorified colonialism; director Umin Boya (himself Seediq) argued it showed how oppressed people weaponized the colonizer's game.
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