I was fortunate to be working with a perfect script for Kano, so the biggest challenge came down to shooting the baseball scenes in a realistic way. We needed to convey to the audience that the ...

A lengthy but big-hearted sports saga set in 1931, “Kano” traces how a ragtag baseball team made up of farm boys from southern Taiwan made it to the finals at Koshien, Japan’s national high ...

stealing the show According to Fujishima, the 1931 Kano team won the hearts of Japanese baseball fans, and even today, the story has not been forgotten among Japanese. So a feature movie about the ...

A group of scrappy young baseball players become celebrated athletes who win respect at a national championship in Wei Te-sheng’s (魏德聖 ...

perhaps can be taken as a litmus test for its appeal beyond baseball-friendly markets. Then again, it’s not as if this appears to be Wei’s and Umin Boya’s major concern, as Kano could easily ...

A lengthy but big-hearted sports saga set in 1931, “Kano” traces how a ragtag baseball team made up of farm boys from southern Taiwan made it to the finals at Koshien, Japan’s national high ...