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Battlefield Baseball Director: Yudai Yamaguchi Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Closed-captioned Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Musicrama, Inc Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2005-09-27 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 "Suuuuuper Tooooornado!" I watched this movie simply because I wanted to see if Tak Sakaguchi was capable of doing more than standing around in leather pants with the "I'm-oh-so-cool" bored look on his face. I was impressed. The synopses is as follows: Seido High has a championship-worthy baseball team, until the coach learns their first game is against the dreaded Gedo High School. The coach has already played them before and it turns out Gedo is a team of the undead. The zombies do not play baseball like regular teams, in fact they don't play baseball at all, they just kill the other team. Whichever team has the most players left alive is the winner by their rules. Seido's coach is ready to sit out this season when he hears that the new student Jubeh (Sakaguchi), a kid with anger management problems and a dark secret, is in a fight and takes out an entire group of bullies using what they call "baseball fighting". The coach then has a brilliant idea of enlisting the help of the new student to defeat the evil players of Gedo High. Can Jubeh defeat Gedo High, make it to Koshien Stadium for Seido High, get over a childhood trauma, reunite with his family, and carry a tune? Watch to find out. :) Yes, you guessed it. This movie is part musical with full-fledged break out in song moments. You'd think it awkward for both the actor on-screen and yourself sitting through it, but actually its very entertaining! Battlefield Baseball is full of awesome side characters, convenient and hilarious story-lines, and there's a few familiar faces from the movie Versus if you're watching closely. *Hint, Hideo Sakaki is one of the Gedo players.* This is not a serious movie by any means, please don't take it seriously and you should really enjoy it. For an adaptation of a manga it was very good. I really hope they get to do a sequel. If you want to see not only a comic book movie, but a Japanese comic book movie, watch this. If you like things over the top and hilariously convenient with crazy lines and characters watch this. Or if you're like me and can't get enough of Tak Sakaguchi and would like to see him in something where he isn't just there to look cool, watch this movie! It was well worth my money. *Dubbing is for suckers so I wouldn't know if this comes in a dubbed version, anyway, this review is based on the subtitled version.* "I hate Baseball but loved this movie." If you like corny Japanese movies, this one is for you. If you like hot Asian men with long hair. Well, there is only one piece of eye candy but he is a treat and goes all out with his acting for the camera. There is nothing in the world like seeing a grown Asian man cry and at the same time being as macho as possible. See it at least once. The dvd xtras are not that great and the 'zombies' in the film are not really zombies in the traditional sense [Fresh..brainnns.....] but are actually quite lively and apparently are high school students out to take over the world through baseball. Also, this is not a predictable movie by far. I guarantee that you wouldn't have guess what was going to happen.