This Sushi Typhoon movie has everything you'd expect, hyper violence, over the top gore and zany Japanese antics.

It tells the story of a teenager with a killer pitch, he's vowed never to play baseball again after accidentally killing his father (As you do). Now he's in prison, will he be able to stick to his vow?

As you can imagine the plot is pretty irrelevant, the entire 100 minutes are simply violent and chaotic. Bouncing from one over the top kill to the next and that can only take a movie so far.

If you want an actual "Movie" in the traditional sense you'll likely not enjoy it. It's silly gory fun and that's all.

There is enjoyment to be had, but it's very niche.

The Good:

Some laughs to be had

A few great kills

The Bad:

Wafer thin plot

Most of the comedy falls flat

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Squeaky toys are highly desirable in prison

I don't know what those jeans of his were, but I want some!

Baldness is a disability, which I also have! Am I entitled to anything?

Baseball is a combat technique

Jubeh (Tak Sakaguchi) has a killer fastball...literally. He has some strange abilities such as being able to kill people with a blazing fastball and being able to pull a lit cigarette from out of the air that is off camera. He uses his talents to kill members of the Japanese mafia and chain smoke. He goes to prison for his vigilante crimes and is forced by his neo-Nazi warden to play baseball for the prison team against the St. Black Dahlia High School girl's team is what amounts to a set up we haven't seen since the likes of "Rollerball." The film is campy funny. It has Troma style blood squirts as well as some dark comedy. It is a silly Japanese grindhouse with subscripts. Clearly a film not for everyone.

Parental Guide: F-bomb (written in English subscript). No sex. Male rear nudity. Worst cavity search scene.

As a young lad, baseball player Jûbei tragically realises the destructive force of his powerful pitching arm when he accidentally cracks open his father's head with the ball during practise. Years later, Jûbei (Tak Sakaguchi),now a crime-fighting vigilante, is placed in a correctional institution for violent juveniles run by a Nazi headmistress, who convinces the young man to join the prison baseball team, while conveniently neglecting to mention that the next game will be played to the death against the evil Saint Black Dahlias (a baseball team consisting solely of unfeasibly sexy but extremely brutal young Japanese high-school girls in almost non-existent outfits).

For many years, the Japanese have been at the forefront of demented movie-making, but in the past decade or so, their 'anything goes' approach seems to have attained new levels of insanity. Deadball, for example, is a micro-budgeted comedy/horror that purposely defies all logic and sense of realism from start to finish in order to cram in as much deranged splat-stick nonsense as possible, including such mind-boggling strangeness as elbow-deep rectal cavity searches, Loony Tunes-style cartoon violence, vomit eating, a pair of cute Idol singers named Poo-poo, the rough removal of one poor guy's testicles, Jûbei thrusting his hand so far inside a villain's head that his fingers emerge from the nostrils and poke out the eyes (!!!),and an armoured steam-punk Nazi cyborg wearing a metal skirt that reveals his skinny human legs.

Some of this craziness works (the film gets more and more bonkers as it progresses, so hang in there for the best bits),much of it fails dismally (sometimes due to budgetary limitations that results in a lot of poorly executed CGI, but often 'cos it was simply a crap idea in the first place). Either way, though, it's hard not to admire the imagination involved and the film-makers' gleefully manic approach.