Wonderful Movie

Brilliant and touching

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

I was'nt sure about what I was going to see, when I bought the DVD, as I was waiting for something GORE like BATTLE ROYALE or ICHI The KIller... I always thought that VERSUS was one of the greatest Japanese movie, but I've to say that I was wrong... The plot of Battlefield Baseball (Battlefield Stadium) might be stupid for some, but I loved it... It was like watching Shaolin Soccer with Baseball, with good comedic performance from the actors (and once again a stupid but plausible story... ) The only thing I regret is that we don't have enough publicity for these kind of movies in the west... ANYWAY this movie deserves a 10/10 (even if, once again, the plot is stupid....)

This movie is totally stupid. How can someone spend money on making this? This movie is for those who lack intelligence, since it does not contain any intelligent thingBad acting+Bad script+Bad effects=Bad movieEveryone is silly in this movie, then zombies comes or some stupid guy with several baseball bats inside him and is still alive. I could make a list of non logical stupid things here. I still cannot decide which Japanese movie is the worst, this or Koroshiya IchiAvoid at all cost, even if you are curious, download it so you know that you wouldn't spend a dime on this.

BATTLEFIELD BASEBALL (2004) This low-budget baseball zombie comedy is arguably a mixed bag, but one likely to develop a sizable cult following. While it successfully pokes fun at the cliches inherent in most sports movies, particularly those `moments' where people spontaneously applaud the main characters actions (similarly mocked in NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE), it doesn't deliver on the action and gore quotient promised by the concept. And yet, as a budget-conscious live-action adaptation of a Shonen Jump manga, it plants tongue hard in cheek and certainly feels faithful to the source material, never for a minute taking itself seriously and gleefully indulging in the most eye-rollingly obvious visual gags. Desperate to make it to the big leagues, the Seido High School baseball team must face their much more successful rivals at Gedo High, a team made up entirely of well-armed zombies. Their ace in the hole may well be transfer student `Jubeh The Baseball' (Tak Sakaguchi), who's signature fastball killed his own father, a tragedy which prevents him from helping the team. Directed by the writer of VERSUS (Yudai Yamiguchi), produced by that film's director (Ryuhei Kitamura) and starring that film's lead (Tak Sakaguchi), BATTLEFIELD shares that film's low-budget ingenuity, but wisely knows when to take up stakes and call it a day around the 90 minute mark. The Japanese R2 DVD has English subs and includes a hilariously inventive short film called Ramen Baka Ichidai, about a kid who hunts down the perfect Ramen noodles for his dying grandfather. Primo stuff.

I would not consider myself a fan of this type of cheesy, campy zombie movies (I have yet to get through Army of Darkness without turning it off in disgust), but I did like Versus. I decided to check this one out after hearing that many of the people that worked on Versus were involved with this. I really didn't know what to expect when I started watching it, but right away I was laughing at the terrible acting and dialogue.The movie centers on a baseball coach who wants to get to the finals, but he finds out that the first team he has to play against is the Zombie team from Gedo High School. He then recruits Jubeh the Baseball, played by Tak Sakaguchi, to help fight the zombies. That's pretty much the whole story. The fight scenes and dialogue between the characters is just so cheesy that you can't help laughing at it. There's even a couple parts where the characters break into song in some hilarious musical numbers. There's a fast-paced kung fu fight scene where Jubeh fights a fat middle-aged woman and knocks her through the wall with a baseball bat. I almost fell off my chair laughing.Once you get over how bad the acting and script is, this movie is pure fun and comedy (plus it has one of the greatest endings ever!). 9/10