At a high school in the city of Yokohoma the baseball team trains to go to the top. There are struggles, hardships and successes and not all of it is due the star pitcher or batter and those in the centre of attention. There are rewards to being the great, but it is a long way to the top and they know it.
Direction
Mori finds poetry in benchwarmers and bullpen silence.
Acting
The non-stars outshine the stars. Intentional and perfect.
Director
Yoshitaka Mori
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references 108 stitches on a baseball and 108 earthly desires in Buddhism—baseball as spiritual trial, basically.
Director Mori cast actual high school baseball players in supporting roles; their real exhaustion in training scenes is documentary-level real.
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