FeaturePG-131992·108m·5.9

Mr. Baseball

He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla!

Comedy

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?

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Cast

Tom Selleck

Jack Elliot

Ken Takakura

Uchiyama

Aya Takanashi

Hiroko Uchiyama

Toshi Shioya

Yoji Nishimura

Dennis Haysbert

Max 'Hammer' Dubois

Art LaFleur

Skip

Nicholas Cascone

Doc

Larry Pennell

Howie Gold

Toshizo Fujiwara

Ryoh Mukai

Kosuke Toyohara

Toshi Yamashita

Mak Takano

Shinji Igarashi

Naoki Fuji

Takuya Nishikawa

Kenji Morinaga

Hiroshi Kurosawa

Kensuke Toita

Akito Yagi

Norihide Goto

Issei Itoi

Joh Nishimura

Tomohiko Ohmie

Takanobu Hozumi

Hiroshi Nakamura

Leon Lee

Lyle Massey

Bradley Jay Lesley

Niven

Jun Hamamura

Hiroko's Grandfather

Details

Status
Released
Original language
English
Languages
English, Japanese
Budget
Revenue
$20.0M
Age rating
PG-13
Quality
4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production
Universal PicturesOutlawPacific Artists

Crew

Director

Fred Schepisi

Writers

Theo Pelletier, John Junkerman, Gary Ross, Kevin Wade

Jerry Goldsmith

Original Music Composer

Peter Honess

Editor

Ted Haworth

Production Design

Ian Baker

Director of Photography

Bernadene Morgan

Costume Design

Jeremy Gibbs

Editor

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Reviews

GenerationofSwine

1/12/2023

10.0

Well, it's not the best film, however Mr. Magnum... Baseball... Tom Selleck does a great job of playing a stuck-up, egotistical chauvinistic well, zhlob and it might sound like an insult, but that is where the charm is. It's a movie where, at it's heart, it shows that Baseball transcends international boundaries... and I firmly believe that once the rest of the world realizes it's better than soccer, that will be true. However, in the meantime, it's also a movie about the worst possible culture shock and the worst possible person to experience it. And, of course, it promises a happy ending, it promises that Mr. Baseball will learn from his mistakes, and it promises that baseball will prevail. And, of course, it delivers on that promise like all movies like this too, and, again, that is the charm. But, really, it's a baseball movie and it takes a lot to make them bad.