The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

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

1978

1h 32m

4.7(39 votes)

Comedy

Overview

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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Cast & Crew

42 members

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Tony Curtis

Marvin Lazar

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Jackie Earle Haley

Kelly Leak

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若山富三郎

Coach Shimizu

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Kanji Inoki

Self

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Hatsune Ishihara

Arika

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George Wyner

The Network Director

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Lonny Chapman

Louis the Gambler

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Matthew Anton

E.R.W. Tillyard III

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Erin Blunt

Ahmad Rahim

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George Gonzales

Miguel Agilar

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Brett Marx

Jimmy Feldman

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David Pollock

Rudy Stein

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David Stambaugh

Toby Whitewood

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Jeffrey Louis Starr

Mike Engleberg

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Scoody Thornton

Mustapha Rahim

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Abraham Unger

Abe Bernstein

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Dick Button

Self

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Regis Philbin

Harry Hahn

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萩本欽一

Game Show Host

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Hugh Gillin

Pennywall

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Robert Sorrells

Locke

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Sonny Barnes

Mean Bones Beaudine

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Michael Yama

Usher

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James Staley

Network Man #4

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Dick McGarvin

Network Man #3

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Tak Kubota

Referee

Directing

Jerry Ziesmer

Eddie of Network

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Gene LeBell

Mean Bones' Manager

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天津敏

Arika's Father

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Dean A. Okinaka

Manager

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Victor Toyota

Interpreter

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Yangi Kitadani

Fight Announcer

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Marjorie Jackson

Waitress

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Jerry Maren

Page Boy

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Tim P. Sullivan

Network Man #2

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Bob Kino

Moderator

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Dennis Freeman

Network Man #5

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Kyôko Fuji

Madam

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Ginger Martin

Director's Aide

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Daniel Sasaki

Band Leader

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Don Watters

Network Man #1

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George Sasaki

Demonstration Spectator (uncredited)

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