Kano (film)

Kano is a 2014 Taiwanese baseball period film directed by Umin Boya and produced by Jimmy Huang and Wei Te-sheng, based on a true story depicting the multiracial Kano baseball team from Japanese-era Taiwan, overcoming extreme odds to represent the island in the 1931 Japanese High School Baseball Championship at Koshien Stadium (located in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture). Performing beyond all expectations, the underdog team advanced to the championship game in the tournament.[1][2]

Kano
Taiwan theatrical poster of Kano
Directed byUmin Boya
Produced byWei Te-sheng
Jimmy Huang
Written byWei Te-sheng
Chen Jia-wei
StarringMasatoshi Nagase
Yu-Ning Tsao
Hsing-Chen Yeh
Togo Igawa
Maki Sakai
Takao Osawa
Tenma Shibuya
Aoki Ken
Rose Yu
Music byNaoki Satō
CinematographyChin Ting-chang
Production
company
ARS Film Production
Release date
  • 27 February 2014 (2014-02-27)
Running time
180 minutes
CountryTaiwan
LanguageTaiwanese Hokkien
Japanese
Hakka language
Formosan
BudgetNT250 million

The film stars Masatoshi Nagase as Hyotaro Kondo, who coaches an underdog multi-ethnic high school team comprising Taiwanese aborigines, Han Taiwanese and Japanese players. The team's star pitcher, Meisho "Akira" Go, is played by Yu-Ning Tsao, who won a Best Supporting Actor award at the 2014 Taipei Film Festival for his performance in the film.

The film also won Audience Awards from the Golden Horse Film Festival (where it also won a FIPRESCI Prize), the Taipei Film Festival and the Osaka Asian Film Festival. Kano is also the 6th highest grossing domestic Taiwanese film of all time.

Music

Theme song

Taiwan version (Japanese + Mandarin): 勇者的浪漫～風になって～/勇者的浪漫 Brave Romance[3]

Composer: Rake / Lyrics: Rake, Yan Yunnong
Singer: Van Fan/Fan Yi-chen, Kousuke Atari, Luo Meiling, Suming Rupi/Shū Mǐ Ēn, Rake

HK version: 勇者的浪漫 Brave Romance (Cantonese)[4][5]

Composer: Rake / Lyrics: 林若寧 / Supervisor: Schumann@Zoo Music / Arrange: Schumann@Zoo Music
Singer: Jason Chan/Chan Pak Yu, VnP

Taiwan version (Chinese): 勇者的浪漫(中文版) Brave Romance (Chinese)[6]

Composer: Rake / Lyrics: Rake, Yan Yunnong
Singer: Luo Meiling (Irene Luo), Umin Boya, Wei Te-sheng, KANO staff (Yan Yunnong, Xie Jun Jie, Xie Jun-Cheng, Zhong Yan-Cheng, Zhang Hong Yi, Chen Jing-Hung, Zhou Jun Hao, Zheng Bing Hong, Sun Ruei, Ye Xing Chen)
Director: Li Su Qing

Japan version (Japanese + English): 風になって～勇者的浪漫～ /　Rake feat.中孝介 Brave Romance[7]

Composer: Rake / Lyrics: Rake
Singer: Rake, Kousuke Atari

Accolades
Year Awards
2014Osaka Asian Film Festival 2014, Audience Award
201416th Taipei Film Festival, Audience Choice Award
201416th Taipei Film Festival, Best Supporting Actor – TSAO Yu-ning
201451st Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Audience Choice Award
201451st Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, FIPRESCI Prize

Adaptations

A 3-volume comic series and a novel based on the movie were published by Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd.[8][9]

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gollark: Infinis'? That was a saltkin™?
gollark: *hopefully*
gollark: Well, you must've hunted stuff to trade for them...
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References
  1. Kano. Yahoo Taiwan. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  2. Japanese actors happy to appear in Taiwan baseball film 'Kano'
  3. 2014 台南Fun幸福跨年晚會(Tainan New Year's Eve) 2014-01-02.
  4. 陳柏宇談新歌《勇者的浪漫》 2014-02-27
  5. 勇者的浪漫(粵語) 歌詞 The braver romance(Cantonese Lyrics)
  6. 勇者的浪漫(中文版)
  7. 風になって～勇者的浪漫～ Rake feat.中孝介
  8. 7年級女破撞牆期　催生《KANO》改編漫畫
  9. 《KANO》電影珍藏組合【漫畫+小說+寫真】(全5書)
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