Green Mind, Metal Bats (Seishun kinzoku batto)

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Audience Member On the farest end of the mundane spectrum, this bizarre drama pit against sorrows, solitude and regrets about a past long lost with the arms of tender (yet frightful) madness... and a metal bat. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Loved how the movie was made "manga style". The characters - the convenience store clerk, the perpetually drunk woman, the uncaring cop.. etc. - while hilarious, all have an aura of sadness around them. Oh ~ and there's a sorta happy ending. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a hard film to describe except to say that it's deadpan funny, delightful and successful in it's earnest attempt to remain off-kilter. It's about two guys who are bummed out their dreams of becoming baseball stars didn't pan out, and a girl who loves baseball and baseball players. One of the guys was a pitcher, played with finely nuanced body language by Masanobu Ando, who's become a bicycle cop and hates everything except himself. He uses his position of authority to do things like get shoplifting housewives to show him the color of their underwear. The other guy is a batter (of unknown position), played by Pistol Takehara, who still wants to make it, practicing his swing a thousand times a day. He's a little numb in the noggin, having been beaned by the bicycle cop pitcher ten years ago and becomes an accomplice in love and illegal activities with a drunken, violent woman who shares his love of baseball. The show stealing woman is played way over the top by Maki Sakai, and now I'm sort of in love with her myself. I generally dislike watching actors play drunk, but with the exception of some of her stumbling, Sakai creates a believable and engaging character who's pushing forty, still hot, not so nice, but fun to have around. She had to wear prosthetics to round out her role as "the chick with a rack". <a href='http://sitenoise-atthemovies.blogspot.com/2010/06/green-mind-metal-bats-seishun-kinzoku.html' target='_blank'>sitenoise at the movies: Green Mind, Metal Bats</a> Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member Hilarious, challenging and profoundly bleak. It seems like such a unique and enjoyable film wouldn't have any trouble getting North American distribution right? Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member got to see at list one time . Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

Green Mind, Metal Bats (Seishun kinzoku batto)

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