[Video] The film "Glory Back Home" depicts the life of former Hanshin player Shintaro Yokota. The theme song is "Glory Bridge" by Yuzu.

The official trailer for the film "Glory Back Home" (directed by Jun Akiyama, scheduled for release on November 28th), which depicts the life story of former Hanshin Tigers player, Yokota Shintaro, was released on September Getsuku.

The film is based on "The Miraculous Back Home," written by Yokota before his death, and the non-fiction book "The Glorious Back Home: Yokota Shintaro, Eternal Uniform Number 24" by Nakai Yuriko (both published by Gentosha Bunko). Gentosha president Kenjo Toru is executive producer, and this is the first film from Gentosha Films. Former high school baseball player and rookie actor Matsutani Takaya will play Yokota, co-starring with Kyoka Suzuki, who plays his mother.

Other cast members include Kentaro Maeda Maeda, Rikka Ihara, Hirona Yamazaki, Takuya Kusakawa, Masato Hagiwara, Yusuke Uechi, and Katsunori Takahashi. The theme song is "Glory Bridge" by Yuzu, which was Yokota's entrance song and was a source of comfort to him during his battle with illness.

Yokota graduated from Kagoshima Jitsugyo High School and joined the Hanshin Tigers as the second pick in the 2013 draft. He was a promising young player. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor during spring training in 2017, and after hospitalization and treatment, he worked hard on rehabilitation in preparation for his return to action, but retired in 2019. His final game at Hanshin Naruohama Stadium (Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture) (a Western League official game against the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks) was a stunning return throw from center field to the catcher, a feat that remains a legend to this day as the "miraculous throw-back home run." He passed away on July 18, 2023.

Yokota and Matsutani, whose fathers were both professional baseball players, have been close friends for several years, with Yokota giving each other a glove and Matsutani giving each other the first costume he wore as an actor. After Yokota entered the hospice, Matsutani stayed overnight in Osaka to be by his side.