Jack Elliot, once a great baseball player, is forced to play in Japan where his brash, egotistical ways cause friction with his new teammates and friends.
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| Tom Selleck | ... | Jack Elliot | |
| Ken Takakura | ... | Uchiyama | |
| Aya Takanashi | ... | Hiroko Uchiyama | |
| Dennis Haysbert | ... | Max 'Hammer' Dubois | |
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Toshi Shioya | ... | Yoji Nishimura |
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Kosuke Toyohara | ... | Toshi Yamashita |
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Toshizo Fujiwara | ... | Ryoh Mukai |
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Mak Takano | ... | Shinji Igarashi |
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Kenji Morinaga | ... | Hiroshi Kurosawa |
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Joh Nishimura | ... | Tomophiko Ohmie |
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Norihide Goto | ... | Issei Itoi |
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Kensuke Toita | ... | Akito Yagi |
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Naoki Fuji | ... | Takuya Nishikawa |
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Takanobu Hozumi | ... | Hiroshi Nakamura |
| Leon Lee | ... | Lyle Massey | |
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Although a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees, Jack Elliott is now on the down side of his baseball career. His batting average is low and one of his few claims to fame is that during the previous year, he led the team in 9th inning doubles in the month of August. With an up and coming slugger ready to replace him, he learns that he's been traded to the Chunichi Dragons of the Japanese Central baseball league. Elliott is set in his ways and quite inflexible, not only in accepting Japanese culture in general, but also with the way the baseball team is managed. When he meets his very pretty PR agent, Hiroko, he begins to gain a greater appreciation that he should accept his current situation. When he realizes her other connection to the team, his attitudes begin to change at an even greater pace Written by garykmcd
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2 October 1992 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$40,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$20,883,046Company Credits
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DENTSU Music And Entertainment, Outlaw Productions (I), Universal Pictures See more »
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Max 'Hammer' Dubois: It's like being a black guy back home. Only there's less of us.
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Nolan Ryan (Pitcher for the Texas Rangers) agreed to pitch to Tom Selleck to give him the experience of a 100 mph baseball headed straight at him. See more »Goofs
All of the Japanese scoreboards in the movie show the batting order using the numbers based on the players' positions in standard baseball scoring, i.e. 1=pitcher, 2=catcher, 3=1st base, and so on. The batting orders show Jack Elliot is the clean-up batter, which is fine. The Japanese use lights above the numbers to indicate who is up to bat. Even when Jack is up to bat, the clean-up position never gets lit. Mostly it's the second batter. Once, in an an away game, the other team has a batter lit up, even though the Dragons are at bat. See more »Quotes
[Jack is unfamiliar with the word 'gaijin']Max 'Hammer' Dubois: It's like being a black guy back home. Only there's less of us.
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Referenced in Siskel & Ebert: Untamed Heart/Strictly Ballroom/Groundhog Day/Love Field/Riff-Raff (1993) See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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I liked this movie, not because Tom Selleck was in it, but because it was a good story about baseball and it also had a semi-over dramatized view of some of the issues that a BASEBALL player coming to the end of their time in Major League sports must face. I also greatly enjoyed the cultural differences in American and Japanese baseball and the small facts on how the games are played differently.
Overall, it is a good movie to watch on Cable TV or rent on a cold winter's night and watch about the "Dog Day's" of summer and know that spring training is only a few months away. A good movie for a baseball fan as well as a good "DATE" movie Trust me on that one! *Wink*