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The Vancouver Asahi

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Original title

Bankûbâ no Asahiaka

AKA

The Vancouver Asahi
Vancouver no Asahi

Year

2014

Running time

134 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Yûya Ishii

Screenwriter

Satoko Okudera

Cast

Music

Watanabe Takashi

Cinematography

Ryûto Kondô

Producer

Co-production Japan-Canada;

Toho, Film Makers, Kansai Telecasting, Fuji TV, Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting (UHB), Shizuoka Telecasting, Akita Television, Television Nishinippon Corporation (TNC), Tokai Television Broadcast Company, Shinhiroshima Telecasting, Ehime Broadcasting

Genre

Drama | 1930s. Sports. Baseball

Synopsis

Once upon a time in Vancouver, there was a baseball team called the Asahi, This was in the 1930s, when the city had a small Japantown on the downtown wharves, and the team was formed by the Canadian-born kids of immigrants. At the start they were always wiped out by the burly Caucasian teams, and they encountered their share of racism and prejudice along the way. But they rethought their strategy and began to pull back lost ground … until Canada’s growing worries about Japanese militarism got in the way and Pearl Harbor led to the mass internment of émigré Japanese. The Asahi never really recovered from the war, so its achievements have become the stuff of legend.

Awards: 2014: Vancouver Film Festival - VIFF: Choice Award - Best Film

2014: Vancouver International Film Festival: Choice Award (Best Film).

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The Vancouver Asahi

2014

Yûya Ishii