{"id":6288,"date":"2003-07-22T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/22\/battlefield-stadium-movie-opens\/"},"modified":"2003-07-22T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-22T14:16:00","slug":"battlefield-stadium-movie-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/battlefield-stadium-movie-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield Stadium Movie Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The live action film adaptation of Man*Gatarou&#8217;s Jigoku Koushien manga, titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.klockworx.com\/jigoku\/\" target=\"_blank\">Battlefield Stadium<\/a>&#8221; in English, has just opened in Japanese theaters. The film is Japan&#8217;s baseball\/horror\/action take on the immensely popular Chinese film Shaolin Soccer (itself heavily inspired by the Japanese Captain Tsubasa manga and anime). Battlefield Stadium stars Tak Sakaguchi (Prisoner KSC2-303 in Versus) and is directed by Yudai Yamaguchi, the assistant director on Ryuhei Kitamura&#8217;s Versus and Alive. Ryuhei Kitamura served as the film&#8217;s producer. The film&#8217;s QuickTime trailer is available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klockworx.com\/jigoku\/trailer\/yokoku_bb.mov\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfccinema.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kung Fu Cult Cinema<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The live action film adaptation of Man*Gatarou&#8217;s Jigoku Koushien manga, titled &#8220;Battlefield Stadium&#8221; in English, has just opened in Japanese theaters. The film is Japan&#8217;s baseball\/horror\/action take on the immensely popular Chinese film Shaolin Soccer (itself heavily inspired by the Japanese Captain Tsubasa manga and anime). Battlefield Stadium stars Tak Sakaguchi (Prisoner KSC2-303 in Versus) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}