MAIFF 2026  -

KFFC

Lee Jang-ho’s Baseball Team

Online screening

Fiction

125

minutes

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About the Film

Director

Lee Jang-ho

Country

Korea

Year

1986

Program

Retrospective of Ahn Sung-ki

Curated by

MAFF Programming Team

Description

Synopsis | Hye-seong, who grew up in hardship but was born with extraordinary talent for baseball, falls in love with Eom-ji, the girl who protected and cared for him. When Eom-ji transfers to another school, they are separated. Years later, they reunite at a baseball field, only for Hye-seong to discover that Eom-ji has become the girlfriend of Ma Dong-tak, a genius high school slugger. From then on, Dong-tak and Hye-seong continue to clash endlessly on the baseball field, with Eom-ji standing between them. They each go on to play for different professional baseball teams, but Hye-seong is eventually forced to give up baseball due to a severe shoulder injury. Under Coach Son Byeong-ho, who forms a team of outcast players driven by their fierce devotion to the game, Hye-seong undergoes grueling training and returns to the world of baseball. His rivalry with Dong-tak, who has won Eom-ji’s heart, begins once again.

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About the Director
Lee Jang-ho
Director
Lee Jang-ho is a South Korean film director and producer. Born in Seoul, he studied architecture and fine art at Hongik University before leaving school to begin working in the film industry under director Shin Sang-ok at Shin Film. Lee is known for bringing social awareness into popular cinema, often exploring the darker sides of Korean society through a critical lens while maintaining strong commercial appeal. His work is widely regarded as having helped narrow the gap between the realities of Korean society and the cinematic expression of those realities, making him an influential figure in modern South Korean film.
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