Strangers on the Field (2015)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 1H 43M
Director : Kim Myeong-joon
Synopsis
In April 2013, unfamiliar faces appear at the Jamsil Baseball Stadium during the opening matches between Doosan and SK. The nervous middle-aged men throwing and batting the first ball are, in fact, Korean-Japanese former team members that played on that same spot in the 1982 finals of the Bong-hwang-dae-ki games.
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