I Am Baseball
After her baseball-loving husband passes away, Natsuko (Mitsuki Moriyama) finds out that he owed money to his amateur team, the Tamagawa Mets. Shigeno (Takehiko Fujita), the manager of the Mets, recognizes Natsuko's raw pitching talent and makes her a deal to forgive the debt if she joins the team. Natsuko reluctantly agrees, claiming to hate baseball, but the more she trains, the more she falls in love with the game.
“A strangely intimate, brutally shocking, deadpan comical-drama that oozes with charm.” –Psychocinema
DIRECTED BY TAKASHI ONO
JAPAN | 2023 | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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I Am Baseball
After her baseball-loving husband passes away, Natsuko (Mitsuki Moriyama) finds out that he owed money to his amateur team, the Tamagawa Mets. Shigeno (Takehiko Fujita), the manager of the Mets, recognizes Natsuko's raw pitching talent and makes her a deal to forgive the debt if she joins the tea...