Deddobôru
Director: Yûdai Yamaguchi
Writer: Yûdai Yamaguchi, Keita Tokaji
Cast: Tak Sakaguchi, Mari Hoshino, Miho Ninagawa, Takamasa Suga, Jyonmyon Pe, Miho Harita, Mickey Curtis, Kôichi Yamadera, Ryôsei Tayama
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Plot:
Jubeh (Tak Sakaguchi) is a talented baseball player as a kid. But when he accidentally kills his father with a fireball, he swears to never play again. Some years later, Jubeh has become a vigilante, is caught and sent to juvie. The prison is run by a Nazi headmistress who forces Jubeh to join the prison baseball team. But at their first match it turns out that they’re not supposed to play baseball, but deadball.

I absolutely adored Deadball. The idea alone of mixing baseball, with Nazis, juvies and a whole damn lot of gore would be worth everything. But they’re actually really funny with it.

Apart from the idea and the general silliness and the Nazis with their absolutely hilarious German and the gore – and all of that would have been enough to make two to three pretty fun movies – the movie mostly lives off of Tak Sakaguchi. And it’s a good living.

Jubeh is an awesome character with his Cowboy outfit and the usual heroic aloofness that is dialled up to 120 (approximately), the cigarette that always appears when his hand moves out of the frame. Also, Tak Sakaguchi is freaking hot. And I say this fully aware that he wears a poncho during 90% of the film.

The guy subsequently called Eyeball.

But Tak Sakaguchi is not the only thing the movie has to offer. The gore is slowly dialled up throughout the film and it’s getting more and more ridiculous (Eyeball is only the beginning). It’s brilliant and very funny.

The movie just doesn’t take itself seriously – which is always a good thing. And it makes the whole film just one enjoyable romp.

Summarising: Wonderfully funny.