The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

91 mins | Comedy, Family | June 30, 1978

In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who 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.

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

91 mins | Comedy, Family | June 30, 1978

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who 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.
IMDb rating 3.7
Producers Paramount, Toei Company, Ltd., Michael Ritchie Productions
Original title The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Directors John Berry
Writers Bill Lancaster

Cast

Tony Curtis

as Marvin Lazar

Jackie Earle Haley

as Kelly Leak

Tomisaburō Wakayama

as Coach Shimizu

Kanji Inoki

as Himself

Hatsune Ishihara

as Arika

George Wyner

as the Network Director

Lonny Chapman

as Louis the Gambler

Matthew Anton

as E.R.W. Tillyard III

Erin Blunt

as Ahmad Rahim

George Gonzales

as Miguel Agilar

Brett Marx

as Jimmy Feldman

David Pollock

as Rudy Stein

David Stambaugh

as Toby Whitewood

Jeffrey Louis Starr

as Mike Engleberg

Scoody Thornton

as Mustapha Rahim

Abraham Unger

as Abe Bernstein

Regis Philbin

as Harry Hahn

Hugh Gillin

as Pennywall

Sonny Barnes

as Mean Bones Beaudine (as Clarence Barnes)

Michael Yama

as Usher

Gene LeBell

as Mean Bones' Manager

Shô Kosugi

as Kata Demonstrator (uncredited)