Year: 2011
Duration: 01:38:24
Directed by: Yudai Yamaguchi
Actors: Kai Atô, Bobby , Mickey Curtis
Language: Japanese ( English Subs)
Country: Japan
Also known as: Deadball
Description: The teenager playing baseball with his father, while his younger brother looks on them adoringly …. Ten years later, that same teenager, has already become a grown man, arrested on charges of committing dozens of crimes and taken to a maximum security prison, where there is an extremely cruel orders. Here, the hero of the movie “Deddobôru” will again have to do sports. Only now it will be a matter of life and death.
Review: Known in some circles of fans “not very well-known movie” of Japan, and indeed the world, a great romancer, a lover of anime and manga, the actor playing charismatic characters in the lead roles, and Kamei for a few minutes. The director, filming movies on their own scenarios. A skilled stunt, which owns various kinds of martial arts such as kickboxing, kendo, boxing, judo. Cult personality, quite comparable with Bruce Campbell (who also is not claimed in cinema), but with the prefix Japanese. So inimitable Sakaguchi. After many years, beginning with his first job in the cult film “Confrontation”, and it still remains one of the most “non-format” Japanese actors, but love Taka to the martial arts and film, does not give him the opportunity to stop doing so in He has lots of fans. And that is important to do it well.
As in the early “Hell’s baseball,” where Sakaguchi also played a memorable role Dzyubeya – a great master in baseball, hiding a terrible secret of his past. And the “Lethal ball”, as if the continuation of “Hellfire baseball,” background which is also this sports game, the protagonist Dziuba, “the man with no name” in Sergio Leone’s trilogy, appearing out of nowhere comes into the fight with the villain (Dziuba pacing in a poncho over one shoulder and boots with spurs), has a terrible secret in his bosom, and extraordinary skill in the game, allowing him to throw the ball only one kill a man.
Yuday Yamaguchi big fan of the genre trash, and most likely, and baseball, a couple with Sakaguchi, once again delight fans, presenting at a good silly, funny and fascinating black comedy.
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You ought to add ‘comedy’ to the tags. From what I’ve seen this is splatter exploitation comedy, and it looks well done compared to some of the other pinku movies. Thanks for keeping the love alive! 😀
Here’s the summmary from ‘anonymous’ at IMDB, which makes a little more sense than the translated stuff:
Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu (Tak Sakaguchi) 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.