The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

Jun 30, 1978

1h 32m

★ 4.8

They never met an adult they couldn't drive crazy.

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Marvin Lazar

Tony Curtis

Kelly Leak

Jackie Earle Haley

Coach Shimizu

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Self

Kanji Inoki

Arika

Hatsune Ishihara

The Network Director

George Wyner

Louis the Gambler

Lonny Chapman

E.R.W. Tillyard III

Matthew Anton

Ahmad Rahim

Erin Blunt

Miguel Agilar

George Gonzales

Jimmy Feldman

Brett Marx

Rudy Stein

David Pollock

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