FILMS > FEATURE
2014, Color, 103', Documentary |
Dir: KIM Myeong-joon |
Keyword: Drama, Youth, Rights, Sports | Release: 2015-03-19 |
For 42 years from 1956 to 1997, 600 young students who were Korean residents in Japan visited their motherland every summer to play baseball. They were the student baseball team of Korean residents in Japan. Until 1997, they went to the finals three times of Korea high school baseball championship in 1974, 1982, and 1984.
The year of 1982 marks the launching of Korean professional baseball. The members of the 1982 team would now have become middle-aged men making a living. The documentary production team embarks on a journey to find those players who were mainly from Osaka, Japan. The production team makes a plan to find those players and present them as the first ball thrower at Jamsil Baseball Stadium, the mecca for Korean baseball. Would the members of the student baseball team of Korean residents in Japan agree to their re-visit to the motherland? However, despite the documentary production team's efforts to properly record their contributions in the history of Korean baseball, the team is faced with a serious crisis.
For 42 years from 1956 to 1997, 620 young students who were Korean residents in Japan visited their motherland every summer to play baseball. Among them, there were not only a star player well known in Korean-Japanese baseball history but also an important player who devoted his whole life for the development of Korean baseball. However, most of them are living in another country silently with the memories of their motherland at the moment.
What is inside the memory they took from their motherland at that serious crisis moment of Korean history?
Graduated from Hanyang Univ., Dept. of Theatre & Film.
2006 [Our School] 131min. documentary
Best Documentary Award, 11th Busan Int’l Film Festival (2006, Korea)
2014 [Strangers on the Field] 103min, documentary
19th Busan Int’l Film Festival (2014, Korea)
Director/Writer : KIM Myeong-joon
Executive Producer: Stanley KWAK
Producer: CHO Eun-sung, Toshiyuki RIKITAKE
Cinematography: KIM Myeong-joon, CHO Eun-sung
Editing: KIM Myeong-joon
Composing: KANG Sang-goo
Mixing: PYO Yong-soo, KOH Eun-ha
Narration: KWON Hae-hyo
KIM Geun/KWON In-ji/BAE Joon-han/YANG Si-chol/LEE Hyo-bom/CHANG Ki-ho