
The Great Escape
1963


38 votes
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Director
Umin BoyaWriter
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> If you give your 100%, the rest of the team will do the same. I have seen many historical-biopics from Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea, but I don't know much of Taiwan history. In fact everything I learnt about the world was mostly through watching movies like this. It was not about war or the freedom fighters, but based on the real story of an under-performed multi-racial baseball team that hit a headline in the 1931 after qualifying to play in a championship. Baseball is not a widely popular in the world like football or cricket, except in a few countries. I have seen many baseball mo…
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