I Will Buy You

I Will Buy You
  • Release date: 21 Nov 1956
  • Release year: 1956
  • Runtime: 111 minutes
  • Country: Japan
  • Keywords: professional baseball, scout, baseball, fake illness, satire, greed, shikoku japan, gallstone, bribery, based on novel
Plot:
Kobayashi's pitiless take on Japan's professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. An excoriation of the inhumanity bred by a mercenary, bribery-fueled business, it follows the shark-like maneuvers of a scout dead set on signing a promising athlete to the team the Toyo Flowers.
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