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Deadball

Deadball2011

Directed by Yudai Yamaguchi

5.8
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IMDb 5.2TMDB 4.8
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Year
2011
Runtime
99 min
Box Office
Budget
$600,000

🏆 1 nomination total

The premise

Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseball and became a criminal and now, at 17, has been sent to the Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory for hardened criminals. Headmistress Ishihara, the granddaughter of a World War II Nazi collaborator, runs the institution with an iron fist and the enthusiastic help of her sadistic assistant, Ilsa. After arriving at the hellhole, Jubeh soon learns from governor Mifune that his long-lost, younger brother Musashi had also done time there after a murder spree, but had since died mysteriously…

Horror Vault's take

From the twisted minds behind Japanese splatter cinema comes a gloriously unhinged mashup of baseball and bloodshed. Teen delinquent Jubeh Yakyu — whose lethal pitching arm has already cost him more than he bargained for — finds himself locked inside a nightmarish reformatory run by a villainous headmistress with a very ugly family history. Forced back onto the diamond under the most dangerous conditions imaginable, Jubeh must confront both his past and the institution's darkest secrets. Expect over-the-top carnage, jet-black humour, and a body count that would make any sports statistician weep.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Splatter, Dark Comedy Involving Parental Death, Depictions Of Institutional Sadism, References To Nazi Collaboration

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