The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

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

Part of The Bad News Bears Collection

1978•1h 32m•4.6/10

Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

4.6/10(40)

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.

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Production

Paramount Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Marvin Lazar

Jackie Earle Haley

Jackie Earle Haley

Kelly Leak

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Coach Shimizu

Kanji Inoki

Kanji Inoki

Self

Hatsune Ishihara

Arika

George Wyner

George Wyner

The Network Director

Lonny Chapman

Lonny Chapman

Louis the Gambler

Matthew Anton

Matthew Anton

E.R.W. Tillyard III

Erin Blunt

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

Self

Regis Philbin

Regis Philbin

Harry Hahn

Kinichi Hagimoto

Kinichi Hagimoto

Game Show Host

Hugh Gillin

Hugh Gillin

Pennywall

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