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Sunday, Aug 18, 2019
4:30 PM (111 mins)
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BAMPFA
I Will Buy You
(Anata kaimasu)
BAMPFA Collection
Keiji Sada, Keiko Kishi, Minoru Oki, Yunosuke Ito,
“Baseball had been Japan’s favorite sport for decades by the time [I Will Buy You] was released. Kobayashi fully intended to shock viewers with his takedown of the beloved institution. . . . The film is told from the perspective of and narrated by Kishimoto (Keiji Sada), a ruthless scout hot to sign the up-and-coming college player Kurita (Minoru Oki) to the major-league Toyo Flowers. . . . There’s little sports-film catharsis in I Will Buy You—and relatively little baseball. Most of the interactions are pitched like boardroom negotiations, shot by Kobayashi with clinical detachment and often in ominous shadow.”
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Zenzo Matsuyama
Based On
a novel by Minoru Ono
Cinematographer
- Yuharu Atsuta
Language
- Japanese
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- 35mm
- 111 mins
Source
- BAMPFA
Permission
- Janus Films