Taku
Sakaguchi , Atsushi Ito , Hideo Sakaki .
From producer Ryuhei Kitamura (writer/director of "Versus,"
"Azumi") comes a new over-the-top comic book based action
comedy, starring Tak Sakaguchi of "Versus" fame. It's
an "apocalyptic sports" movie that gives an uproarious
new spin to the genre formerly typified by "Rollerball"'s
serious approach. Imagine a movie that's a zany combination of laugh-out-loud
elements from "Shaolin Soccer" and blood and violence
from "Battle Royale," and you get the picture. The story
begins with a new student - a punk who's been expelled multiple
times from other schools for his erratic and violent behaviour -
who is talked into joining the local Seido baseball team by the
school's principal for the upcoming tournament. The team's first
opponent in the season happens to be the feared Gedo High team whose
players are known for their brutality and their match-to-the-death
approach that leaves nobody playing against them left alive when
the game is over. However, the unthinkable happens on the day of
the match. Seido's new "fighter" finds himself locked
up in a jail cell, and with no guarantee that he will show up in
time, the Seido team must face Gedo, the deadly team from Hell!!
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