I Will Buy You
is a 1956 Japanese drama film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. Plot
Kishimoto is a talent scout for the Toyo Flowers baseball club, one of three competitors who try to buy new promising hitter Kurita for their team. While Kurita's shadowy benefactor and manager Kyuki, who financed the student's education, is making negotiations, Kurita's girlfriend Fudeko tries to talk him out of entering the professional baseball league. The competitors finally meet at the countryside home of Kurita's family, who have their own plans for their son and brother. Cast
 Keiji Sada as Kishimoto
 Yūnosuke Itō as Kyuki
 Keiko Kishi as Fudeko, Kurita's girlfriend
 Minoru Ōki as Kurita
 Eijirō Tōno as Ogushi
 Mitsuko Mito as Ryuko, Kyuki's mistress
 Kōji Mitsui as Tamekichi
 Jun Tatara as Yusuke Shima
 Akio Isono as Saburō

Reception
Film historians Donald Richie and Joseph L. Anderson wrote in their 1959 compendium The Japanese Film – Art & Industry that "Kobayashi lacked the power to present a really smashing indictment". In his Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day, Alexander Jacoby called I Will Buy You a "critique of commercial values in the world of sport" which benefited from the persona of actor Yūnosuke Itō. Awards
 Mainichi Film Award, Blue Ribbon Award and Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actor Keiji Sada
 Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor

Legacy
I Will Buy You was presented as part of the retrospective "Against Authority: The Cinema of Masaki Kobayashi" at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2019. References

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1956 films
Japanese drama films
Japanese black-and-white films
Films based on Japanese novels
Films directed by Masaki Kobayashi
1950s Japanese films
1956 drama films