Tokyo Giants Youth League

Name: Tokyo Giants Youth League
Director: Michio Fukuyu
Released: 1977-03-19
Duration: 24 min
Cast: Shigeo Nagashima, Sadaharu Oh, Nobuyoshi Morita, Kimitaka Ôizumi, Keiko Itō

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1977 · 24 min

Overview

A children’s film that teaches proper baseball posture and knowledge to kids, based on the premise that a weak youth baseball team, “Kodomo Giants,” receives coaching from players of the Yomiuri Giants (Yomiuri Kogyo Co., Ltd. / Tokyo Yomiuri Giants). It was released in July 1976, following “Tsutomu-kun from the Yamaguchi Family”, as a non-TV-affiliated short live-action film in the “Toei Manga Festival,” and became the only sports film of its kind in the series.

Directed by Michio Fukuyu

Cast

Shigeo Nagashima — Himself
Sadaharu Oh — Himself
Nobuyoshi Morita — Yuichi
Kimitaka Ôizumi — Yuichi's tutor
Keiko Itō — Yuichi's mother