Kano (film)

Kano 嘉農
Taiwan theatrical poster of Kano
Directed by	Umin Boya
Produced by	Wei Te-sheng Jimmy Huang
Written by	Wei Te-sheng Chen Jia-wei
Starring	Masatoshi Nagase Yu-Ning Tsao Hsing-Chen Yeh Togo Igawa Maki Sakai Takao Osawa Aoki Ken Rose Yu
Music by	Naoki Satō
Cinematography	Chin Ting-chang
Release date	February 27, 2014
Running time	180 minutes
Country	Republic of China (Taiwan)
Language	Taiwanese Hokkien Japanese Hakka language Formosan
Budget	NT250 million

Kano (Chinese and Japanese: 嘉農; pinyin: Jiānóng; rōmaji: Kanō) is a 2014 Taiwanese baseball film directed by Umin Boya. The film was produced by Jimmy Huang and Wei Te-sheng. The film depicts the multiracial Kano baseball team from southern Taiwan overcoming extreme odds to represent the island in the 1931 Japanese High School Baseball Championship at Koshien Stadium (located in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture), when Taiwan was still under Japanese rule. Performing beyond all expectations, the underdog team advanced to the championship game in the tournament.

The film stars Masatoshi Nagase as Coach Hyotaro Kondo, who coaches an underdog multi-ethnic high school baseball team from Taiwan comprising Japanese, Taiwanese and Han 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 Taipei Film Festival for his performance in the film.

The film also won Audience Awards from the Golden Horse Film Festival (where it also won a FIPRESCI Prize), the Taipei Film Festival and the Osaka Asian Film Festival. Kano is also the 6th highest grossing domestic Taiwanese film of all time.