Summary
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan is an American-Japanese film comedy first released in 1978,
directed by John Berry.
The film stars Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Antonio Inoki and Hatsune Ishihara.
Our overall rating for this film is: very poor.
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Credits
- Director: John Berry
- Script: John Berry
- Cast: Tony Curtis (Marvin Lazar), Jackie Earle Haley (Kelly Leak), Tomisaburo Wakayama (Coach Shimizu), Antonio Inoki (Himself), Hatsune Ishihara (Arika), George Wyner (the Network Director), Lonny Chapman (Louis the Gambler), Matthew Anton (E.R.W. Tillyard III), Erin Blunt (Ahmad Rahim), George Gonzales (Miguel Agilar), Brett Marx (Jimmy Feldman), David Pollock (Rudy Stein), David Stambaugh (Toby Whitewood), Jeffrey Louis Starr (Mike Engleberg), Scoody Thornton (Mustapha Rahim), Abraham Unger (Abe Bernstein), Dick Button (Himself), Regis Philbin (Harry Hahn), Kinichi Hagimoto (Game Show Host), Hugh Gillin (Pennywall), Robert Sorrells (Locke), Clarence Barnes (Mean Bones Beaudine), Michael Yama (Usher), James Staley (Network Man #4), Dick McGarvin (Network Man #3), Tak Kubota (Referee), Jerry Ziesmer (Eddie of Network), Gene LeBell (Mean Bones’ Manager), Bin Amatsu (Arika’s Father), Dean A. Okinaka (Manager), Victor Toyota (Interpreter), Yangi Kitadani (Fight Announcer), Marjorie Jackson (Waitress), Jerry Maren (Page Boy), Tim P. Sullivan (Network Man #2), Bob Kino (Moderator), Dennis Freeman (Network Man #5), Kyôko Fuji (Madam), Ginger Martin (Director’s Aide), Daniel Sasaki (Band Leader), Don Watters (Network Man #1), Julie Hampton (Dancing woman), Akira Oizumi
- Country: USA / Japan
- Language: English / Japanese
- Runtime: 91 min
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