After a year on the U.S. festival circuit, with buzzy stops at Mill Valley and Hot Springs, Diamond Diplomacy, the feature documentary from San Francisco-based filmmaker Yuriko Gamo Romer, receives its first international screening this week at the Tokyo Film Festival.
The screening will serve as a unique homecoming for Gamo Romer and the doc. Produced between the United States and Japan, Diamond Diplomacy traces more than 150 years of shared baseball history between the two nations.
Using rare archival footage, the film explores baseball’s arrival in Meiji-era Japan through Babe Ruth’s 1934 tour and World War II to
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