''Kano'' is a 2014

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ese

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directed by Umin Boya and produced by Jimmy Huang and

Wei Te-sheng Wei Te-sheng (born 16 August 1969) is a Taiwanese film director and screenwriter. He directed ''Cape No. 7'', currently the highest grossing domestic Taiwanese film and the second highest-grossing film in Taiwanese film history. Early life We ...

, based on a true story depicting the

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Kano baseball team The , officially the , was a Taiwanese baseball team established in 1928 in Japanese Formosa. The team was a motley crew that consisted of Han Chinese ( Hoklo and Hakka), Taiwanese indigenous people, and Japanese players. The high school baseball ...

from Japanese-era Taiwan, overcoming extreme odds to represent the island in the 1931

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(located in

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). Performing beyond all expectations, the underdog team advanced to the championship game in the tournament.Kano
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as Hyotaro Kondo, who coaches an underdog multi-ethnic high school team comprising

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, Han Taiwanese and

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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

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for his performance in the film. The film also won Audience Awards from the

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(where it also won a

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), the Taipei Film Festival and the Osaka Asian Film Festival. ''Kano'' is also the 6th highest grossing domestic Taiwanese film of all time.

Music

Theme song

Taiwan version (Japanese + Mandarin)
勇者的浪漫～風になって～/勇者的浪漫
Brave Romance :Composer: Rake / Lyrics: Rake, Yan Yunnong :Singer: Van Fan/Fan Yi-chen,

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, Luo Meiling, Suming Rupi/Shū Mǐ Ēn, Rake HK version
勇者的浪漫
Brave Romance (

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) :Composer: Rake / Lyrics: 林若寧 / Supervisor: Schumann@Zoo Music / Arrange: Schumann@Zoo Music :Singer: Jason Chan/Chan Pak Yu, VnP Taiwan version (Chinese)
勇者的浪漫(中文版)
Brave Romance (Chinese) :Composer: Rake / Lyrics: Rake, Yan Yunnong :Singer: Luo Meiling ( Irene Luo),

Umin Boya Umin Boya (born March 1, 1978), also known as Ma Chih-hsiang(), is a Taiwanese aborigine (half aborigine on his father's side) writer, director and actor, and director of the historical baseball film ''Kano'' (2014). He also starred in Wei Te-shen ...

, KANO staff (Yan Yunnong, Xie Jun Jie, Xie Jun-Cheng, Zhong Yan-Cheng, Zhang Hong Yi, Chen Jing-Hung, Zhou Jun Hao, Zheng Bing Hong, Sun Ruei, Ye Xing Chen) :Director: Li Su Qing Japan version (Japanese + English)
風になって～勇者的浪漫～ /　Rake feat.中孝介
Brave Romance :Composer: Rake / Lyrics: Rake :Singer: Rake,

Accolades

Adaptations

A 3-volume comic series and a novel based on the movie were published by Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd.《KANO》電影珍藏組合【漫畫+小說+寫真】(全5書)
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References

External links

* * {{Golden Horse Award for Audience Choice 2014 films 2010s sports films Baseball films Films set in Taiwan Films shot in Taiwan Taiwanese sports films Films set in Japan Sports films based on actual events Films set in 1931 2010s Japanese-language films