Spanning 150 years of history, this story explores how the United States and Japan forged connection through a shared love of baseball. Anchored by the journeys of Masanori “Mashi” Murakami and Warren Cromartie, it revisits milestones from the game’s 1872 arrival in Japan to Babe Ruth’s 1934 Goodwill Tour and Lefty O’Doul’s 1949 postwar mission. Through rare archival footage, home movies, and cultural artifacts, the film reveals how baseball became a lasting form of diplomacy and exchange.
Credits
Director(s):
Yuriko Gamo Romer
Producer(s):
Yuriko Gamo Romer, Marc Smolowitz, Loi Ameera Almeron
Writer(s):
Yuriko Gamo Romer, Ken Schneider
Cast:
Masanori ''Mashi'' Murakami, Warren ''Cro'' Cromartie, Ichiro Suzuki, Bobby Valentine, Robert Fitts, Kerry Yo Nakagawa, Don Nomura, Tom O''Doul, Nobuhisa ''Nobby'' Ito, Tadao Kunishi, Marty Lurie, Sayuri Shimizu Guthrie, Bill Staples, Jr., Julia Ruth Stevens, Robert Whiting, Kyoko Yoshida, Tetsuo Furukawa, Cappy Harada, Hideo Nomo, Lefty O''Doul, Shohei Ohtani, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Wally Yonamine, Kenichi Zenimura, Kenso Howard Zenimura
Closed Captions (for closed caption devices), Open Captions (text that is always visible on screen and cannot be turned off, displaying spoken dialogue and relevant sounds for accessibility)
