The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
They never met an adult they couldn't drive crazy.
91 min
A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
- Release date
- June 30, 1978
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Paul Chihara
- Box office
- $7,092,495
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Trailer
Cast
- Tony Curtis as Marvin Lazar
- Jackie Earle Haley as Kelly Leak
- Tomisaburō Wakayama as Coach Shimizu
- Antonio Inoki as Wrestler Antonio Inoki
- Hatsune Ishihara as Arika
- George Wyner as Network Director
- Lonny Chapman as Louis the Gambler
- Matthew Anton as E.R.W. Tillyard III
- Erin Blunt as Ahmad Rahim
- George Gonzales as Miguel Agilar
- Brett Marx as Jimmy Feldman
- Dick Button as Self
- Regis Philbin as Harry Hahn
- Kin'ichi Hagimoto as Game Show Host
- Hugh Gillin as Pennywall
- Robert Sorrells as Locke
- Michael Yama as Usher
- James Staley as Network Man #4
- Tak Kubota as Referee
- Gene LeBell as Mean Bones' Manager
Crew
- John Berry · Director
- Bill Lancaster · Writer
- Michael Ritchie · Producer
- Paul Chihara · Composer
- Kōzō Okazaki · Cinematographer
- Gene Polito · Cinematographer
- Richard A. Harris · Editor
- Dennis Virkler · Editor
- Walter Scott Herndon · Production designer