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(88 min)
2003 - Comedy, Fantasy, Sport - Japan
Getting First Place in the High School Baseball Championships is highly coveted in high schools in Japan and director of Seido High is ready to do anything to have the best team. However, Gedo High, a rival high school, and their zombie maniac team are a big obstacle to all the other high schools . During the first game between Seido High and Gedo High, most of Seido High team is literally wiped out. By chance, Megane, one of the few players left alive, discovers that Jubeh, a newly arrived punk student, has the strength, power and a super throw that could match the power of the Gedo High team. Though, Jubeh lost his father previously while playing baseball and now blames himself for this and nothing will convince him to play baseball ever again. It is up to Megane and the High school director to build a new team before the next match… but how will they convince Jubeh to join the team?
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Director : Yudai Yamiguchi
Cast : Tak Sakaguchi, Atsushi Ito, Hideo Sakaki
(102 min)
2000 - Comedy, Drama, Sport - South Korea
Dao-Ho a banker with no self confidence gets beaten down by his boss because he has poor performance and is sometimes late for work. He hopelessly try to sign up for some martial art lessons but gives up before he even starts. He notices a local wrestling gym on his way home and tries to sign up but the coach does not want to have anything to do with him. A few days later the coach of the gym is offered a contract for a fixed match, he needs to find a cheating wrestler and decides to take on Dao-Ho and train him.
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Director : Kim Ji-wun
Cast : Song Kang-ho, Chang Jin-young, Park Sang-myeon, Cheong Wung-in, Song Young-chang, Chang Hang-seon
(105 min)
1992 - Comedy, Sport - Japan
A university in Japan is having trouble with is Sumo Wrestling club. It seems no one is interested in Sumo Wrestling, one of the member of the faculty was the Sumo champion in his youth. He managed to convince some people to join the Sumo team just for one day to attend a tournament. After a horrible and shameful defeat the members of the team decide to stay and to train for the next competition.
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Director : Suo Masayuki
Cast : Akira Emoto, Robert Hoffman, Masahiro Motoki, Kentarô Sakai, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka
(91 min)
2001 - Comedy, Sport - Japan
The swimming team of Tadano High School is in big trouble, the only active member; Suzuki is giving up any hope that the team will survive until the next Tadano High's festival. But the surprise arrival of a new coach changes everything, the beautiful Sakuma is gathering a lot of attention in the boy's school and now everyone wants to join the team. But what everyone didn't know was that Sakuma is not really a swimming coach but a synchronized swimming instructor. When she proposes to create a synchronized swimming team, only Suzuki and 4 other high school misfits will remain. But because of an unexpected incident, Sakuma has to take a long vacation from the school, which will leave the team without any supervision. With the Tadano High's festival coming very soon, every club from the school is preparing a special event of their own. Suzuki and his friends, inspired by their darling coach's dream, decide to organize a special swimming sync show. But when they publicly announce their i
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Director : Shinobu Yaguchi
Cast : Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chikara Yamamoto, Naoto Takenaka, Yûji Suzuki, Takatoshi Kaneko, Tetta Sugimoto
(81 min)
2002 - Comedy, Sport - South Korea
During the time Korea was invaded by Japan soldiers, Hochang lived the life of a scholar destined to follow the path of his father as being a tutor at school. One day, while playing soccer he meets an American missionary who was playing an alien game that immediately got his attention, it was Baseball. Taught by the beautiful Jungrim, a Korean traveling women who was accompanying the missionary at the time, Hochang will soon develop a natural talent at being a very good hitter. Jungrim will then decide to form the first baseball team of Korea history, the YMCA. Composed by numerous people such as Korean aristocrats, a pair of twins, a politician son, a few simple workers, a mute, a servant, a Japanese pitcher and of course Hochang, the YMCA team will reveal to be an excellent team and will never loose a game of their very first season. But as the Japanese military force is invading Korea, the team will get into trouble, as they will loose their training field. Rivality will then bui
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Director : Hyeon-seok Kim
Cast : Kang-ho Song, Hye-su Kim, Ju-hyuk Kim, Jeong-min Hwang, Gu Shin
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