City Without Baseball

City Without Baseball
City Without Baseball

Theatrical release poster
Traditional 無野之城 (Cantonese name: Mou ye chi sing)
Directed by Lawrence Ah Mon
Produced by Heman Peng
Written by Scud (stage name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung)
Starring Ron Heung Tze-Chun
Leung Yu-Chung
Yuan Lin
John Tai Ji-Ching
Monie Tung Man-Lee
Music by Eugene Pao
Cinematography Ying Zhang
Editing by Kwok-Wing LEUNG (as Jacky Leung)
Studio ArtWalker Productions
Distributed by Golden Scene (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
Release date(s) April 2008 (Hong Kong)
Running time 100 minutes
Country Hong Kong SAR,
P.R. China
Language Cantonese

City Without Baseball (Chinese: 無野之城) is a 2008 Hong Kong movie drama 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. It explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society, in an unusually open, convention-defying way, and is the first of four such films by Scud (the stage name of Hong Kong writer/film producer Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung). The three later films are: Permanent Residence in 2009, Amphetamine in 2010, and his most recent, Love Actually... Sucks!, in 2011.

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Synopsis

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.

Awards

  • 2008 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Winners for Top 7 Suggested Films
  • 2008 Taiwan Film Critics Society Awards Winners for Top 10 Best Chinese Films

Production Company

  • ArtWalker Productions

VCD, DVD & Blu-ray

A Panorama Distributions Co.:

  • VCD first became available on 2008-10-03 (3rd Oct., 2008)
  • DVD (DVD Region 3) first became available on 2008-10-10 (10th Oct., 2008)
  • Blu-ray Disc first became available on 2011-06-03 (3rd June, 2011)

Films by the same director/producer

  • Permanent Residence (2009)
  • Amphetamine (2010)
  • Love Actually... Sucks! (2011)

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