We can definitely see the impact this has to people involved, the overall wearing down of ones humanity as one approaches everything as a problem that can simply be solved with a few more thousand yen, but it's not the clear-cut moral case of a man leaving another man to die for his own advantages. This isn't a man's life or death in the balance, this is contract negotiations around a baseball player's entry into the pros.
The characters are well-drawn, the situation appropriately murky, and the tension real, but there's a moral component to the story that Masaki Kobayashi seems to take for granted. This is the Japanese baseball version of Ace in the Hole, but it's missing one component that could have pushed it into greatness.
Reviewed by davidmvining 8 / 10 Corruption
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