City Without Baseball

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City Without Baseball
City Without Baseball poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Lawrence Ah Mon
Produced by Heman Peng
Written by Scud (stage name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung)
Starring Ron Heung Tze-Chun
Leung Yu-Chung
Yuan Lin
John Tai Ji-Ching
Monie Tung Man-Lee
Music by Eugene Pao
Cinematography Ying Zhang
Edited by Kwok-Wing Leung (as Jacky Leung)
Production
company
ArtWalker Productions
Distributed by Golden Scene (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
Release dates
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  • April 2008 (2008-04)
Running time
 100 minutes
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese

City Without Baseball (Chinese: 無野之城; stylized: 無野の城; jyutping: mou4 je5 zi1 sing4) is a 2008 Hong Kong drama film starring Ron Heung and other members of the Hong Kong National Baseball Team. It is directed by South African-born Hong Kong filmmaker Lawrence Ah Mon, about a city where baseball is almost unknown, and where the team plays to empty stadia. It explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society, in an unusually open, convention-defying way, and features full-frontal male nudity in several scenes. It is the first of five such films by Scud (the stage name of Hong Kong writer/film producer Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung). The four later films are: Permanent Residence in 2009, Amphetamine in 2010, Love Actually... Sucks! in 2011, and his most recent, Voyage, in 2013. Two more films, one named Utopians, and the other, Naked Nation, are currently in production.[1]

Plot

The actual members of the Hong Kong National Baseball Team appear in the film as themselves, in a story set in 2004. Their isolated existence leads them to take unconventional choices in both love and friendship, and to summon great courage in the face of their lonely and disconnected existence. The story focuses on the easy-going, yet often detached, main character, Ronnie, as played by Ron Heung, and his friendships and relationships with others, both on and off the sports field.

Awards

  • 2008 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Winners for Top 7 Suggested Films
  • 2008 Taiwan Film Critics Society Awards Winners for Top 10 Best Chinese Films

Films by the same director/producer

Home media

A Panorama Distributions Co.:

  • VCD first became available on 2008-10-03 (3 October 2008)
  • DVD (DVD Region 3) first became available on 2008-10-10 (10 October 2008)
  • Blu-ray Disc first became available on 2011-06-03 (3 June 2011)

See also

References

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External links

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