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Release date February 27, 2014 | 7.9/10 IMDb Music by Naoki Satō Initial release 27 February 2014 (Taiwan) Cinematography Chin Ting-chang | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Wei Te-ShengJimmy Huang Written by Wei Te-ShengChen Jia-wei Starring Masatoshi NagaseYu-Ning TsaoHsing-Chen YehTogo IgawaMaki SakaiTakao OsawaAoki KenRose Yu Cast Similar Mahjong, Dust in the Wind, A City of Sadness, Rebels of the Neon God, The Hole Profiles |
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Kano (Chinese and Japanese: 嘉農; pinyin: Jiānóng; rōmaji: Kanō) is a 2014 Taiwanese baseball film directed by Umin Boya. The film was produced by Jimmy Huang and Wei Te-Sheng. The film depicts the multiracial Kano baseball team from southern Taiwan overcoming extreme odds to represent the island in the 1931 Japanese High School Baseball Championship at Koshien Stadium (located in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture), when Taiwan was still under Japanese rule. Performing beyond all expectations, the underdog team advanced to the championship game in the tournament.
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The film stars Masatoshi Nagase as Coach Hyotaro Kondo, who coaches an underdog multi-racial high school baseball team from Taiwan comprising Japanese, Taiwanese and Han 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.

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

HK version: 勇者的浪漫 Brave Romance (Cantonese)
Composer: Rake / Lyrics: 林若寧 / Supervisor: Schumann@Zoo Music / Arrange: Schumann@Zoo MusicSinger: Jason Chan/Chan Pak Yu, VnPTaiwan version (Chinese): 勇者的浪漫(中文版) Brave Romance (Chinese)

Japan version (Japanese + English): 風になって~勇者的浪漫~ / Rake feat.中孝介 Brave Romance
Composer: Rake / Lyrics: RakeSinger: Rake, Kousuke AtariAdaptations
A 3-volume comic series and a novel based on the movie were published by Yuan-Liou Publishing Co.,Ltd.
