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Audio Format: DD 2.0 Stereo Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic) Languages: Japanese Subtitles: English, Korean Region Code: 3 Year Made: 2003 Running Time: 87 / 62
 Yudai Yamaguchi, in his debut film, gives us a world first - a baseball zombie horror comedy, complete with chainsaws, corpses sailing through the air and high-kicking kung-fu antics. Based on a popular manga story by Gataro Man that ran in the top-selling Monthly Shonen Jump magazine, Battlefield Baseball almost dispenses with the bat and ball altogether, and instead deals up a whole lot more fun in its place, mocking the cliches of the genre in a manner as spirited as it is funny.
The field of dreams to which all school teams aspire in this case is Koshien. Driven by a fanatical coach, the members of the school team at Seido High are literally dying to get there. Unfortunately, their rivals at Gedo High have already died doing so, and the ranks of the team are now swelled with zombies armed to the teeth with an assortment of hard-edged implements.
Seido's crude bullying slugger Gorilla is one of the many wiped out in the early rounds when the two teams first come head to head, but fortunately help is at hand when simpering Megane ("Four Eyes", played by the frog-faced Ito of Boys Choir and Kakuto) falls victim to a gang of violent punks when he goes to retrieve a missing ball. Leaping to Megane's defence comes mean and moody local hardboy, Jubeh The Baseball (Sakaguchi), who immediately catches coach's eye when he fends off an attack by baseball bat from one of Megane's assailants with consummate ease. Jubeh's skills may be the only way to save the day for Seido against the Gedo team's specialised brand of "fighting baseball", but having accidentally slain his father during pitching practice years before, he seems adamant to live his life as a loner rather than bring his skills to the team.
 From producer Ryuhei Kitamura (writer/director of "Versus," "Azumi") comes a new over-the-top comic book based action comedy, starring Tak Sakaguchi of "Versus" fame. It's an "apocalyptic sports" movie that gives an uproarious new spin to the genre formerly typified by "Rollerball"'s serious approach. Imagine a movie that's a zany combination of laugh-out-loud elements from "Shaolin Soccer" and blood and violence from "Battle Royale," and you get the picture.
The story begins with a new student - a punk who's been expelled multiple times from other schools for his erratic and violent behaviour - who is talked into joining the local Seido baseball team by the school's principal for the upcoming tournament. The team's first opponent in the season happens to be the feared Gedo High team whose players are known for their brutality and their match-to-the-death approach that leaves nobody playing against them left alive when the game is over. However, the unthinkable happens on the day of the match. Seido's new "fighter" finds himself locked up in a jail cell, and with no guarantee that he will show up in time, the Seido team must face Gedo, the deadly team from Hell!!
Special Features:
- Deleted Scenes
- Footage of film festival
- Extra Footage
- Making of "B.B"
- Trailer
- Animation scenes
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