City Without Baseball

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City Without Baseball
City Without Baseball poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Lawrence Ah Mon
Written by Scud (production-crediting name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung)
Produced by Heman Peng
Starring Ron Heung Tze-Chun
Leung Yu-Chung
Yuan Lin
John Tai Ji-Ching
Monie Tung Man-Lee
CinematographyYing Zhang
Edited by Kwok-Wing Leung (as Jacky Leung)
Music by Eugene Pao
Production
company
ArtWalker Productions
Distributed by Golden Scene (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
Release date
  • April 2008 (2008-04)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

City Without Baseball (Chinese :無野之城; stylized: 無野の城; jyutping: mou4 je5 zi1 sing4) is a 2008 Hong Kong drama film starring Ron Heung and other members of the Hong Kong National Baseball Team. It is directed by South African-born Hong Kong filmmaker Lawrence Ah Mon, about a city where baseball is almost unknown, and where the team plays to empty stadia.

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The film explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society. The film is the first of seven such films by Scud (the production-crediting name of Hong Kong writer/film producer Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung). The six later films are: Permanent Residence in 2009, Amphetamine in 2010, Love Actually... Sucks! in 2011, Voyage in 2013, Utopians in 2015 and Thirty Years of Adonis in 2017. His eighth film, Apostles, was made in 2022, as was his ninth, Bodyshop. [1]

His tenth and final film, Naked Nations: Hong Kong Tribe, is currently in production. [1] [2]

Plot

The actual members of the Hong Kong National Baseball Team appear in the film as themselves, in a story set in 2004. Their isolated existence leads them to take unconventional choices in both love and friendship, and to summon great courage in the face of their lonely and disconnected existence. The story focuses on the easy-going, yet often detached, main character, Ronnie, as played by Ron Heung, and his friendships and relationships with others, both on and off the sports field.

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References

  1. 1 2 Lo Hoi-ying (20 September 2022). "'We need to be hopeful': Hong Kong queer director Scud, renowned for his sexually explicit art-house movies, on leaving filmmaking". South China Morning Post . Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  2. Gareth Johnson (11 January 2018). "Scud: "I'm reluctant to call Hong Kong home"". Archived from the original on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.

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