Korean Japanese director Sang-Il Lee's first film concentrates on a Korean Japanese teenager, slowly awakening to his Korean identity and to Japanese racism. Yang Tesong attends a high school comprised mainly of Koreans, but rather than fret over the status of immigrants in Japan or other political debates, he fixates on more immediate teenage-boy concerns, like baseball, and that cute Japanese girl, and, um, baseball. His hazy, apolitical life changes one summer when his mother sets him up with “a nice Korean girl,” and-more dramatically-his baseball team squares off against an all-Japanese squad. Lee's graduation project from Shohei Imamura's film school (The Japan Academy of Motion Pictures) boasts all the earthy humor and sly political commitment of Imamura himself, and earned Lee attention at festivals worldwide.