Year: 2003
Director: Yudai Yamaguchi
Written by: Gatarô Man
Main cast: Tak Sakaguchi, Shinji Tanikado, Kenji Matsuda, Hideo Sakaki, Atsushi Ito
Genre: Action, Comedy, Comic, Grotesque, Musical, Horror, Zombie, Sport
Runtime: 87 min.
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Japanese, english
Buy DVD: CDJapan.com
Jubeh Yakyu (means "baseball"), a student with extraodinary baseball talent, has sworn off the sport because of something terrible that happened earlier and that he can't remember. He moves to a new school where the principal has but one dream, baseball victory, which he believes he is about to achieve, until he discovers his opponents are a team of zombies renowned for not leaving their opponents alive at the end of a game. Can Jubeh be persuaded to join the team and help them achieve victory? And what's in the boy's past?
This is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. If you simply want to relax and laughing out loud on a totally nonsense and grotesque plot, Battlefield Baseball is perfect! Based on the comic manga by Gatarou Man, it mix comedy with sport, action, horror and musical. The final result is exhilarant, you have to see it to believe! The director Yudai Yamaguchi did really a good job. Tak plays the main character, Jubeh Yakyu, the typical bad-boy with a good heart. Long hair, dirty uniform and a scar on his cheek... he's totally gorgeous and macho. So be careful when watching this movie: you could have heart or breathing problems staring at him!
Rating: 7/10