KOSHIEN Japan's Field of Dreams TRAILER
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2024
- KOSHIEN: Japan's Field of Dreams (2019) Directed by Ema Ryan Yamazaki
Baseball is life for the die-hard competitors in Koshien, Japan’s national high school baseball championship, whose alumni include US baseball stars Shohei Ohtani and former Yankee Hideki Matsui. As popular as America’s World Series, the stakes are beyond high in this single-elimination tournament. For Coach Mizutani, however, cleaning the grounds and greeting guests are equally important as honing baseball skills, demonstrating discipline, sacrifice and unwavering dedication. Director Ema Ryan Yamazaki follows Mizutani and his team on their quest to win the 100th annual Koshien, and, in the process, goes beyond baseball to reveal the heart of the Japanese national character.
Part of the 38th Japan Film Festival co-presented by The Canadian Film Institute, The Embassy of Japan in Canada and The Japan Foundation, Toronto
Watch here www.cfi-icf.ca/jff
KoshienDocumentary
Directed and Edited by: Ema Ryan Yamazaki
Produced by: Eric Nyari
Executive Produced by: Keisuke Itoh, Shin Yasuda, Keiko Tsuneki
Cinematography by: Michael Crommett
Original Score by: Jason Cummings
Sound Recording by: Ai Miyatake
Sound Design and Re-recording Mix by: Tom Paul
Title Design and Graphics by: Naoko Saito
Post-production Supervisor: Fumiro Sato
NHK and NHK Enterprises present a Cineric Creative Production
©2019
When I tell my American friends what high school baseball in Japan is like, I always tell that it is like the baseball version of the American movie 'Friday Night Lights' .
Very good comparison.
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A good documentary. You can see why japan beat USA in the WBC.
Not really. The USA has yet to send a great pitching staff to the WBC.
Baseball is a fun summer game , Japan make it stressful
Daiya no Ace brought me here. If I ever go to Japan someday, I want to watch Koshien.
Japanese “YAKYU-baseball” has a unique spirit that took root and developed over more than 100 years after it was imported to Japan from the American style of baseball.
In fact, there is another type of baseball on the earth today that exists in a different spirit from the American style.
Of course, the roots of baseball are in the U.S. (or the U.K.), but baseball was exported from the U.S. to other countries, and the baseball that took root there developed in a different way. This would be a fact that has happened on the planet.
The 2023 WBC was the day that “Japanese-style baseball (YAKYU)” defeated the home of “American-style baseball.”
To put it another way, it was a battle between Japanese-style baseball “ZEN-IN-baseball (all members),” which emphasizes “teamwork of all players,” and American-style baseball, which emphasizes “individual power.”
The result was the day that Japanese-style “ZEN-IN-baseball (YAKYU) (organized baseball emphasizing teamwork)” won over American-style baseball.
This difference is due to the difference in background culture, history, and environment.
However, the real and obvious cause of the difference is largely due to the difference in the two countries' educational methods in “high school baseball education.”
Japan's professional baseball system consists of 12 teams in two leagues, and almost all of the players who join these teams as professional players come from Japanese high school baseball clubs, and have played in the “Koshien Tournament,” a national high school baseball tournament that has been held annually since 1915 (more than 100 years).
Japan is divided into 47 prefectures, each of which has one (or more than one in large autonomous regions) winning team from each regional tournament.
56 teams (2018) will gather at the Koshien Tournament to compete for the championship of the best high school in Japan in a sudden-death tournament format over a two-week period.
Almost all Japanese high school baseball players spend three years practicing baseball in order to participate in and win this annual Koshien Tournament.
Although the Koshien Tournament is a tournament for high school students, it has a history of more than 100 years, and because it is participated by the regional representatives of the 47 local autonomous regions of Japan, the level of interest and enthusiasm is unusually high throughout Japan.
The interest in the Koshien Tournament is much higher than that of professional baseball.
Of course, every Japanese player who has made it to the major leagues, without exception, has either participated or aspired to participate in the Koshien Tournament when they were in high school.
That is how influential the Koshien Tournament is in Japanese high school baseball.
During the three years of high school baseball education, they are taught the basics of baseball skills, physical fitness, winning strategies, teamwork, manners, and character development.
The stoicism toward the improvement of baseball skills, the obsession with winning, and the behavior seen in Japanese players such as Shohei Ohtani and Ichiro were also greatly influenced by their three years of high school club activities during which they competed hard to win the Koshien Tournament.
The secret of why Ohtani often says that he prioritizes his team's winning and World Series championships over his own individual results, and why he is still committed to self-discipline and technical improvement, is largely due to the baseball education they received during their high school years, when they were aiming to win the Koshien Tournament.
The Koshien Tournament has a large number of participating teams and is a sudden death tournament.
Therefore, no matter how well-rounded and strong the team is, if they fail to score a single run in a single game, they are eliminated from the tournament and their three years of hard work comes to naught.
Do you have any idea how difficult and frightening this is for these players who have worked so hard every day to play baseball?
So they are willing to sacrifice themselves and cooperate with their team members in order to score one point more than the other team.
They naturally learn to put the team first and act in a cooperative manner, where everyone tries to score one more point in order to win the game.
The uniqueness of Japanese-style organized baseball ”YAKYU” is partly due to the uniqueness of Japanese culture, but it is more influenced by the experience of going through the Koshien tournament, which almost all high school baseball players go through.
Anyone know where can I watch the full documentary?
@@jasoncummings2362 You did a wonderful job.
apple tv?
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they have it on amazon prime video (not free though)
japan made a religious out of baseball
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