2007 | Hong Kong | Fiction

無野之城 (City Without Baseball)

  • Cantonese, Mandarin English 100 mins
  • Director | Scud, Lawrence Lau Kwok-Cheong
  • Writer | Scud
  • Producer | Scud

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

Sexuality, suppressed emotion and urban alienation occupy the minds of the Hong Kong baseball team, searching for their place in a city where baseball culture is non-existent. Who are these invisible players if no one is cheering them on? Stripping bare the cast of real athletes, the movie is a postmodern youth drama and a sports film, that plays cheekily with each genre’s iconographies. The handsome and charismatic protagonists play alongside camaraderie, crushes, love, competition and homoeroticism that seep beyond the locker room in a strikingly bare manner that marks a new approach to queer films in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Baseball Suppressed Emotion Urban Alienation Postmodern Youth Drama Sports Film Queer Cinema
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