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The movie is about Minami Kawashima, a high school girl who becomes the manager of her school's baseball team in place of her hospitalized friend, Yuki Miyata. She tries to lead the team to the National High School Baseball Championship by learning strategies from the business book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter Drucker, which she mistakenly bought.

IMDB Rating: 5.6

IMDB Votes: 72

Genere: Drama

Country: Japan

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Plot tags: sincere, captivating, psychological, uplifting