Kieta Kyojingun (1978)

Kieta Kyojingun 1978 / 消えた巨人軍 1978 / The Disappeared Giant Army , The Lost Giant Army , きえたジャイアンツ

All the players of the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, a professional baseball team, who got on the Shinkansen to move to Koshien Stadium, suddenly disappeared. A newly-married detective, Susumu Sagami and his wife, Fumiko who happened to witness a player boarding at Tokyo Station, track the entire case. (Source: TVDb) ~~ Adapted from the novel ‟Kieta Kyojingun‟ (消えた巨人軍) by Nishimura Kyotaro (西村京太郎). The kidnapped team in the novel is based on a real baseball team that got kidnapped in 1976.