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Kano is a taiwanais film of genre Drama with Masatoshi Nagase
Kano (2014)
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Add to a movie listKano is a 2014 Taiwanese baseball film directed by Umin Boya. The film was produced by Jimmy Huang and Wei Te-Sheng. The film depicts the multiracial Kano baseball team from southern Taiwan overcoming extreme odds to represent the island in the 1931 Japanese High School Baseball Championship at Koshien Stadium (located in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture), when Taiwan was still under Japanese rule. Performing beyond all expectations, the underdog team advanced to the championship game in the tournament.
Actors
Masatoshi Nagase
(Hyotaro Kondo)
Togo Igawa
(Coach Sato)
Maki Sakai
(Kondo's wife)
Takao Ōsawa
(Yoichi Hatta)
Tenma Shibuya
(Chiayi citizen representative)
Lisa Chiao Chiao
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