Status
Released
original language
English
Budget
$ 0
Revenue
$ 20000000

Jack Elliot

Uchiyama

Hiroko Uchiyama

Max 'Hammer' Dubois

Yoji Nishimura

Toshi Yamashita

Ryoh Mukai

Shinji Igarashi

Hiroshi Kurosawa

Tomohiko Ohmie

Issei Itoi

Akito Yagi

Takuya Nishikawa

Hiroshi Nakamura

Lyle Massey

Hiroko's Grandfather

Hiroko's Grandmother

Coach Hori

Hiroko's Assistant

Umpire #1

Morita-san

Commercial Director

Skip

Trey

Doc

Howie Gold

Ryan Ward

Billy Stevens

Duane

Rookie

Rick

Manuel

Young Ball Player

Player - New York

Umpire

Coed in Bed

Player's Wife

Japanese Sportscaster

Japanese Sportscaster

Nikawa

Sato

Sugita

Uemoto

Tsuboi

Koboyshika

Takahashi

Kobayashi

Mutsui

Ishimara

Itami

Umpire #2

Umpire #3

Niven

Bartender (uncredited)

Himself (voice) (uncredited)

Fan (uncredited)

Himself (voice) (uncredited)

Cheering fan behind home plate (uncredited)

Written by GenerationofSwine on 2023-01-12
Well, it's not the best film, however Mr. Magnum... Baseball... Tom Selleck does a great job of playing a stuck-up, egotistical chauvinistic well, zhlob and it might sound like an insult, but that is where the charm is. It's a movie where, at it's heart, it shows that Baseball transcends international boundaries... and I firmly believe that once the rest of the world realizes it's better than soccer, that will be true. However, in the meantime, it's also a movie about the worst possible culture shock and the worst possible person to experience it. And, of course, it promises a happy ending, it promises that Mr. Baseball will learn from his mistakes, and it promises that baseball will prevail. And, of course, it delivers on that promise like all movies like this too, and, again, that is the charm. But, really, it's a baseball movie and it takes a lot to make them bad.