Battlefield Baseball

Japan, 2003, directed by Yudai Yamaguchi

35mm, 87 minutes, screening Friday, Oct 29th at 9:00 pm

Mix Evil Dead with Shaolin Soccer and it’d look something like Yudai Yamaguchi’s BATTLEFIELD BASEBALL. Yamaguchi, who wrote VERSUS and ALIVE for director Ryuhei Kitamura, brings gore comedy to the dugout with a genre-skewering tale about an epic fight between rival sports teams.

The Seido High baseball team is a powerhouse on the diamond, but even it’s no match for Gedo Squad, a merciless pack of undead ghouls who humiliate, eviscerate and decapitate the competition. After suffering a casualties-filled loss, the remaining Seido players’ only hope of avoiding having their smoking limbs strewn across the playing field is Jubeh (Tak Sakaguchi from VERSUS and ALIVE), a handsome, longhaired rebel (aren’t they all?) with an unnaturally gifted arm and a terrible secret. Since a tragic game of catch—shown in a karoke video-style flashback—he’s sworn-off baseball.

Filled with slapstick violence, hysterical soap opera melodrama, over-the-top gore, spontaneous musical numbers and constant jabs at sports and martial arts movie clichés, Battlefield Baseball takes you out to the ballgame and around the bend.

Battlefield Baseball

October 26 - 31

for more info call: 780.433.0600