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Battlefield Baseball
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Reviewed by jareprime

Wow! I mean what can I say about a movie that’s about baseball…sort of. I mean technically there is lots of baseball related storyline here, but there really is no baseball to speak of. Battlefield Baseball is near impossible to nail down to one single story line or even a genre for that matter. It’s filled with Dragonball Z type fighting and violence, very silly cartoon style gore, purposefully goofy (albeit entirely amusing) blue zombies, and of course who could forget the saccharine sweet diabetic coma inducing musical interludes?

The story (brought to us by the same crew who did Versus) is about the Seido High baseball team. You see, Seido High School has a run at having a championship baseball season, that is until they find out that their first opponents of the year happen to be the zombie filled team that is Gedo High baseball.

All is lost until the coach of Seido finds a misunderstood loner named Jubeh, who’s pitch is so badass he accidentally killed his own father with it during a game of catch.

Battlefield Baseball is most definitely one of those movies that if you go into it thinking you’re going to be wowed with amazing special EFX and story, then you’ll be sorely disappointed. If you’ve seen Bio Zombie then you’ve got a slight idea of what Battlefield Baseball will be like. Completely over the top acting and overreacting. It’s about as goofy as they come, but it definitely falls into the “so bad it’s good” style of horror.

If you like your horror goofy, totally unrealistic, and low budgeted then it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll find this one highly amusing. I myself was amazed at the sheer lack of seriousness in the production, but I’ll be damned if it didn’t entertain the hell out of me for the duration of the flick.

Home Run Ridiculously goofy (purposefully).
Foul Ball Could have gone without the musical interludes.
Review Rating:6 out of 10 SUPAHHH TOHNADOOOHHH!


Battlefield Baseball (2003)
87 Minutes; Japan
Rated – Not Rated (Contains scenes of baseball carnage, blue faced zombies, and musical numbers).

Also Known As:
Jigoku kôshien
Battlefield Stadium
Hell Stadium


Starring:
Tak Sakaguchi .... Yakyû Jubei
Atsushi Ito .... Megane
Hideo Sakaki .... Hôichi

Directed by: Yudai Yamaguchi
Written by: Gatarô Man
Viewing Format: DVD


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