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#HandballStrive(2020)
Status: Released
Date: 2020-07-24
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6 Votes
Time: 1h 48m
Overview:
The school’s handball club is about to close down. Can social media bring it back to life? Masao Kiyota is a high school student living in Japan’s southern Kumamoto Prefecture. Lacking passion for anything in life, he spends his days like so many youth on his smartphone along with his childhood friend, Okamoto. One day, they upload a photo taken three years previously when they were both part of their school’s handball team. To their surprise, the post goes a little viral. Encouraged, they add the hashtag: “#Handball Full Power” and are swarmed with “likes” from around the country. Amidst the sudden social media attention, Masao and Okamoto set to resuscitating a nearly defunct men’s handball team.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
ProductionCompanies: 
Grasshoppa!
Movie: #HandballStrive
Top 10 Billed Cast
加藤清史郎
Masao Kiyota
醍醐虎汰朗
Okamoto
蒔田彩珠
Kurosawa
芋生悠
Nanao
坂東龍汰
Kurahisa
鈴木福
Jiro
篠原篤
Yoshimuta
甲斐翔真
Taichi
田中美久
Hashimu
仲野太賀
Aniue
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Overview
The school’s handball club is about to close down. Can social media bring it back to life? Masao Kiyota is a high school student living in Japan’s southern Kumamoto Prefecture. Lacking passion for anything in life, he spends his days like so many youth on his smartphone along with his childhood friend, Okamoto. One day, they upload a photo taken three years previously when they were both part of their school’s handball team. To their surprise, the post goes a little viral. Encouraged, they add the hashtag: “#Handball Full Power” and are swarmed with “likes” from around the country. Amidst the sudden social media attention, Masao and Okamoto set to resuscitating a nearly defunct men’s handball team.
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2020-07-24
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