Battlefield Baseball

Battlefield Baseball (?????, Jigoku K?shien, "Hell Stadium") is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Y?dai Yamaguchi. The film is written by Gatar? Man, based on his manga series of the same name, and stars Tak Sakaguchi, Atsushi It?, and Hideo Sakaki. It was produced by Ryuhei Kitamura. The film is a combination of several genres, mixing martial arts action with the clichés of the sports film—particularly skewering baseball, one of Japan's most popular high school sports—and the violence and brutality of a horror film. The film's bizarre—sometimes almost incoherent—plot, blood and gore, and unique comedy have given it something of a "cult" popularity in the West. Though the film is ostensibly about high school baseball rivalries, the amount of actual baseball in the film is fairly light. There are many scenes involving bats and balls, however. The film was released on Region 1 DVD by Subversive Cinema. It's every high school baseball team's dream to go to the legendary Koshien Stadium...