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The dangers inherent in sequel-making are clearly apparent in The Bad News Bears Go to Japan.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
They never met an adult they couldn't drive crazy.
1978 · 1h 32m · PG
Comedy
Directed by
John Berry
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.
Director and cast
- John Berry Director
- Tony Curtis as Marvin Lazar
- Jackie Earle Haley as Kelly Leak
- Tomisaburō Wakayama as Coach Shimizu
- Kanji Inoki as Self
- 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
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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Dire.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Rotten
The film is a demonstration of the kind of desperation experienced by people trying to make something out of a voyage to nowhere.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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