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Watch: Kano 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – Under Japanese rule, an underdog high school baseball team from southern Taiwan defeats the heretofore superior northern teams and wins a rare opportunity to represent the colony in the 1931 empire-wide tournament. Comprised of Taiwanese, Taiwanese aboriginals and Japanese players, “Kanô,” the Kagi Nourin School team, must integrate the ethnically mixed roster and make the best of its unique strengths to not just survive but thrive in the elite league..
Plot: A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
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An epic tale of perseverance and pride; a story that connects past and the future
Kano is based on a true historical event in 1931 in colonial Taiwan, when a no-name, no-good high school baseball team from Southern Taiwan took the whole society by storm by making it all the way to the 2nd place in the Japanese High School Baseball Tournament. Kano is a baseball story first and foremost. It is also a soul-searching journey. So I think it will be beneficial to offer a little bit of the background in both baseball and in Taiwan history.

Like any sports, there is no shortcut in becoming good at baseball other than a player’s hard-work, determination, and of course talent. Baseball training was especially grueling at the time. For example, in order to train his players to field any play without fearing the incoming shot of the ball, coach Kondo made players practice until the blisters on the palms became hardened and thickened, and players no longer feel pain. In another example, a player recalled that during fielding practice the outfielders often had to run at full speed and even dive to catch a flyball, but they only got 5 second to get up and get ready before the next flyball came. Some students withdrew from the baseball team because of Kondo’s spartan style training. For those high school boys who persisted, baseball is not just a sports or for fun, it is their creed.

Taiwan was ceded to the Imperial Japan in 1895 after the Ching Dynasty lost the Sino-Japanese war, beginning a 50-year-long Japanese colonial rule. In the early days, the schools were segregated. Many schools were exclusively for Japanese only. In many aspects of the society, Taiwanese ethnic Han people were treated as 2nd class citizens. And then there were those feisty, “uncivilized” Taiwanese tribal aborigines. Therefore it bears a significant meaning for Kano(Kagi Agricultural and Forestry School) to assemble a baseball team that is consisted of Japanese, Han Taiwanese, and Taiwanese aboriginal people. I would like to applaud coach Kondo for valuing ability and performance of a student before anything else.

Another fun fact is about the National High School Baseball Championship, commonly known as “Koshien Tournament”. According to Wikipedia, there are over 4000 schools participating every year. After series of elimination from regional tournament, only 56 teams get to represent their own prefecture to compete nationally in the Koshien Stadium. Now remember the games are single elimination, meaning you either win or go home. Koshien is also one of the most important scouting events for the Japanese professional league. Players who shine in the tournament will be locked in and be offered lucrative contract to become professional baseball players as soon as they graduate. While for losers, this may be the end of their dream and to their life as a baseball player. The competition could not be any more fierce, and the stakes any higher. And such, Koshien Stadium is held as the sacred site and a great honor for all Japanese baseball fans.

Next year will be the 90th anniversary since Kano baseball team’s historical win in 1931. Its victory and the spirit of never giving up ignited the frantic love of Taiwanese people for baseball, at a time when the island was in search of its identity and recognition. Today, near 90 years later, baseball remains THE national sports in Taiwan. The story of Kano is the pride and joy of Taiwan. And I hope it will continue to inspire and give courage to people around the world in this challenging and uncertain time.

Arena for Heroes – Kano for the World
This is a very exciting and inspiring movie; it’s more than baseball – it’s about striving towards your goals no matter how impossible they seemed. The story was based on the historical fact that one legendary baseball team from Taiwan (at that time considered a province in Japan during the Occupation) made it to the Japanese national high school baseball championship Koshien. Some had criticized the director for his pro-Japanese sentiments and for portraying the Japanese rulers in a favorable light; I believe he was only trying to pay tribute to an amazing team with players of different ethnicities who worked towards their dream, dropping minor differences on the way. It will be an easy watch even if you don’t know baseball (well somehow I managed to recall the theories taught in high school and was able to follow). Some lines are quite funny – “So Teacher Hamada was responsible for conning papayas while Coach Kondo did the part of conning us!”

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 3 hr 5 min (185 min)
Budget 7
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Biography, Drama, History
Director Chih-Hsiang Ma, Te-Sheng Wei
Writer Ruby Chen, Te-Sheng Wei
Actors Togo Igawa, Masatoshi Nagase, Yu-Ning Tsao
Country Taiwan
Awards 5 wins & 7 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Surround 7.1, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Zeiss Master Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Arriflex 435 Xtreme, Zeiss Master Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 250D 5207, Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Kodak Vision 2383), D-Cinema