Deadball
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A delinquent with a deadly pitching arm enters a prison where baseball becomes another instrument of punishment. The follow-up to Battlefield Baseball exchanges school rivalry for an even more grotesque institution. Extreme splatter and deliberately offensive caricature make this a loud, adult genre-night option.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 6/10
- Plot
- 9.5/10
- Effects
- 6.5/10
- Dialogue
- 7.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 7.5/10
“The prison baseball programme has abandoned rehabilitation.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 74
Synopsis and movie facts
Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseball and became a criminal and now, at 17, has been sent to the Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory for hardened criminals. Headmistress Ishihara, the granddaughter of a World War II Nazi collaborator, runs the institution with an iron fist and the enthusiastic help of her sadistic assistant, Ilsa. After arriving at the hellhole, Jubeh soon learns from governor Mifune that his long-lost, younger brother Musashi had also done time there after a murder spree, but had since died mysteriously…
- Released
- 2011
- Directed by
- Yudai Yamaguchi
- Running time
- 99 min
- Original title
- デッドボール
Starring
- Tak Sakaguchi as Jûbei Yakyû
- Mari Hoshino as Suzuki Shinosuke / Four Eyes
- Koichi Yamadera as Baseball Announcer
- Miho Ninagawa as Principal Ishihara
- Takamasa Suga as Musashi
- Jyonmyon Pe as Eyeball
- Miho Harita as Ilsa Zwei
- Mickey Curtis as Father
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 83190.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review compares the exaggerated prison with Story of Ricky and describes its grotesque authoritarian caricatures.
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