I Will Buy You
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Masaki Kobayashi’s pitiless take on Japan’s professional baseball industry is unlike any other sports film ever made. A condemnation of the inhumanity bred by a mercenary, bribery-fueled business, it follows the sharklike maneuvers of a scout dead set on signing a promising player to the team the Toyo Flowers.
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Cast
- Keiji Sada
- Daisuke Kishimoto
- Keiko Kishi
- Fueko Taniguchi
- Minoru Ooki
- Goro Kurita
- Yunosuke Ito
- Ippei Kyuki
- Mitsuko Mito
- Ryoko Taniguchi
Credits
- Director
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Produced by
- Masaharu Kokaji
- Based on the novel by
- Minoru Ono
- Screenplay
- Zenzo Matsuyama
- Cinematography
- Yuharu Atsuta
- Production design
- Shukei Hirataka
- Editor
- Yoshiyasu Hamamura
- Music
- Chuji Kinoshita
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