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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Release Date:
2 October 1992 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$40,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$5,240,375, 4 October 1992Gross USA:
$20,883,046Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$20,883,046Company Credits
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DENTSU Music And Entertainment, Outlaw Productions (I), Universal Pictures See more »
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In the locker room when "The Chief" (Uchiyama) is fining Jack for disrespect of equipment, Jack hands him an additional 10,000 Yen. The Chief asks in Japanese (and Yoji translates into English) "What is the second one for?" Jack replies, "That's for the next time." Yoji doesn't translate Jacks answer into Japanese, yet The Chief asks (again, in Japanese and Yoji translates) "He wonders when the next time will be." He inadvertently reveals that he understands/speaks English, long before when he reveals it at the grandparents' home. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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I agree with BigAlC - this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before I went to live in Japan for a year in 1993. Tom Selleck does a fantastic job here, as always, and the movie is greatly humorous and educational. I'm a big fan of Tom Selleck's, and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part, bringing the film to life in a way I can't imagine any other actor being able to pull off.
This film featured some first-rate Japanese actors, and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with Selleck - I can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie - Japan's an awesome place to go, whether you want to party, sight-see or just try to take everything in.