City Without Baseball (; stylized:
無野の城;
jyutping: mou
4 je
5 zi
1 sing
4) is a 2008 Hong Kong drama film starring
Ron Heung and other members of the
Hong Kong National Baseball Team. It is directed by South African-born Hong Kong filmmaker
Lawrence Ah Mon, about a city where baseball is almost unknown, and where the team plays to empty stadia. It explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society, in an unusually open, convention-defying way, and features full-frontal male nudity in several scenes. It is the first of five such films by
Scud (the stage name of Hong Kong writer/film producer
Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung). The four later films are:
Permanent Residence in 2009,
Amphetamine in 2010,
Love Actually... Sucks! in 2011, and his most recent,
Voyage, in 2013. His sixth film,
Utopians, has now been completed and awaits release, whilst his seventh,
Naked Nation, is currently in production.