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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan1978

★4.892 minComedy

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.

Director

Writer

Score

Stars

Tony Curtis Jackie Earle Haley Tomisaburō Wakayama

Cast43

Tony Curtis
as Marvin Lazar
Jackie Earle Haley
as Kelly Leak
Tomisaburō Wakayama
as Coach Shimizu
Kanji Inoki
as Self
H
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
G
George Gonzales
as Miguel Agilar
Brett Marx
as Jimmy Feldman
David Pollock
as Rudy Stein
David Stambaugh
as Toby Whitewood
J
Jeffrey Louis Starr
as Mike Engleberg
S
Scoody Thornton
as Mustapha Rahim
A
Abraham Unger
as Abe Bernstein
Dick Button
as Self
Regis Philbin
as Harry Hahn
Kinichi Hagimoto
as Game Show Host
Hugh Gillin
as Pennywall
R
Robert Sorrells
as Locke
S
Sonny Barnes
as Mean Bones Beaudine
Michael Yama
as Usher
James Staley
as Network Man #4
D
Dick McGarvin
as Network Man #3
Tak Kubota
as Referee
J
Jerry Ziesmer
as Eddie of Network
Gene LeBell
as Mean Bones' Manager
Bin Amatsu
as Arika's Father
D
Dean A. Okinaka
as Manager
V
Victor Toyota
as Interpreter
Y
Yangi Kitadani
as Fight Announcer
M
Marjorie Jackson
as Waitress
Jerry Maren
as Page Boy
T
Tim P. Sullivan
as Network Man #2
B
Bob Kino
as Moderator
D
Dennis Freeman
as Network Man #5
K
Kyôko Fuji
as Madam
G
Ginger Martin
as Director's Aide
D
Daniel Sasaki
as Band Leader
D
Don Watters
as Network Man #1
G
George Sasaki
as Demonstration Spectator (uncredited)
Sho Kosugi
as Kata Demonstrator (uncredited)

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