Kokutai 
國體 「Kokutai」
Release Date: September 23rd, 2020
Duration: 10 mins.
Director: Ryushi Lindsay
Writer: N/A
Starring: N/A
Baseball has never looked so menacing.
Kokutai is roughly translatable as ‘body politic’ and it is the title of Ryushi Lindsay’s debut movie. An experimental documentary, Kokutai looks askance at the pomp and ceremony of high school baseball in Japan and, through careful and selective assemblage of footage, reveals the fascist aesthetics that are present.
Baseball is not normally thought of as a place of violent political leanings but this 10-minute montage strikes a defiantly different note as it plays out sequences from Koshien baseball tournaments and goes heavy displaying imagery drenched in fascist overtones.
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