If you loved When Romance Meets Destiny, try YMCA Baseball Team

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Kim Hyun-seok, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to When Romance Meets Destiny, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What YMCA Baseball Team is

The one unholy trinity of baseball, romance and evangelism finds its spiritual home in 1905 Seoul. A lovelorn civilian mistakes a mission game for fate, borrows a bat to impress its left fielder, and unwittingly founds Korea’s first—and most aggressively pious—church league. It’s hard to know which deity this film prays to the hardest.

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