Film

Green Mind, Metal Bats

2006 · 1h 36m · Comedy · Drama

IMDb

6.4

The film follows Nanba, a shunned outcast who doesn’t have a girlfriend, any money or prospects, a turnaround from his glory days in high school when he played on the baseball team; his former teammate Ishioka, who is now a policeman because of an elbow injury; and baseball fanatic Eiko, a hopeless alcoholic who spends more of her time drunk than sober. The three share an intense love of baseball — and their destinies are forever intertwined.

Pistol Takehara

Nanba

Masanobu Ando

Ishioka

Maki Sakai

Eiko

Yusuke Kamiji

Ishioka's colleague

Megumi Sato

Mami

Noriko Eguchi

Ishioka's wife

Kōji Wakamatsu

Oji-san

Susumu Terajima

Ochiai

Shûji Yamamoto

Secretary

• Kazuyoshi KumakiriDirector
• Takashi UjitaScreenplay
• AkainuOriginal Music Composer

Release date

August 26, 2006

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Comedy, Drama