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Presents
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Battlefield Baseball
AKA
Jigoku Kôshien
Battlefield Stadium
/Hell Stadium
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Movie Information

Release year.........: 2003
Genre................: Action/Comedy/Horror
IMDb rating..........: 5.8/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384832/
Language.............: Japanese
Subtitles............: English softcoded and .srt

Duration.............: 1h 26mn
Source...............: DVD R2
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 493 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 796 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.5




Video/Audio Attributes

Format................: AVC
Format profile........: High@L3.0
Codec ID..............: avc1
Bit rate..............: 630 Kbps
Width.................: 720 pixels
Height................: 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio..: 16:9
Frame rate............: 24.432 fps
Color space...........: YUV
Chroma subsampling....: 4:2:0
Bit depth.............: 8 bits
Scan type.............: Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)....: 0.075
Writing library.......: x264 core 112

Format................: AC-3
Format/Info...........: Audio Coding 3
Mode extension........: CM (complete main)
Codec ID..............: ac-3
Bit rate mode.........: Constant
Bit rate..............: 160 Kbps
Channel(s)............: 2 channels
Channel positions.....: Front: L R
Sampling rate.........: 48.0 KHz
Bit depth.............: 16 bits
Compression mode......: Lossy
Stream size...........: 99.2 MiB (20%)





Plot summary

Yudai Yamaguchi, who worked with Ryuhei Kitamura on the screenplays for Versus and Alive, makes his directorial debut with the low-budget zombie sports musical comedy Battlefield Baseball.

The prospects for the new season are looking bright for the Seido High baseball team. With their best hitter, Gorilla, leading the squad, the coach anticipates a
successful year, despite the presence of the runty Four Eyes (Atsushi Ito). But then the coach finds out that his team has to play the dreaded murderous zombie team
from Gedo High, a team that makes up its own deadly rules, and he considers forfeiting the entire season. But a new student, the intriguingly named Jubeh the
Baseball (Tak Sakaguchi, who has appeared in several of Kitamura's films), shows up and demonstrates his amazing baseball prowess in a fight with the local gang of dropouts.

Jubeh's arrival renews the team's hopes, but when Four Eyes asks him to play, Jubeh explains, in a heartrending musical number, the tragic reason why he's vowed never to play baseball again. Four Eyes sees through Jubeh's pain to his genuine love for the game, and convinces him to help the team. But on the day of the big game against Gedo High, Jubeh finds himself in jail, and Gorilla and the rest of the Seido team try to forge ahead, with horrific results. Jubeh eventually gets out of jail, and with the help of some unlikely allies, takes on the Gedo team in a bloody showdown.

Battlefield Baseball, based on a manga by Gatarô Man, was shown at the 2004 New York Asian American Film Festival.




Production

Yûdai Yamaguchi......: Director
Isao Kiriyama........: Writer screenplay
Gatarô Man...........: Writer comic
Ryuichi Takatsu......: Writer
Yûdai Yamaguchi......: Writer screenplay
Yoshinori Chiba......: Executive producer: Media Suits
Itaru Fujimoto.......: Executive producer: KlockWorx
Ryûhei Kitamura......: Producer
Hidemi Satani........: Planner
Daisuke Yano.........: Original Music
Shûichi Kakesu.......: Film Edit
Susumu Nakatani......: Special makeup effects artist
Carl Shimkin.........: Production manager
Gô Ohara.............: Stunts
Hiroyuki Yoshida.....: Utility stunts




Cast

Tak Sakaguchi.........: Yakyû Jubei
Atsushi Itô...........: Megane
Hideo Sakaki..........: Hôichi
Shôichirô Masumoto....: Umpire
Akiko Mishiro
Alex Revan............: Blaster
Kanae Uotani..........: Young mother



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Posted by..........: XxXx BIG A LITTLE A xXxX
Date of post.......: 12.11.2011