Film

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

1978 · 1h 32m · Comedy

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

IMDb

3.7

Rotten Tomatoes

11%

Metacritic

31

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.

Tony Curtis

Marvin Lazar

Jackie Earle Haley

Kelly Leak

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Coach Shimizu

Kanji Inoki

Self

Hatsune Ishihara

Arika

George Wyner

The Network Director

Lonny Chapman

Louis the Gambler

Matthew Anton

E.R.W. Tillyard III

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

• John BerryDirector
• Bill LancasterWriter
• Michael RitchieProducer
• Gene PolitoDirector of Photography
• Kōzō OkazakiDirector of Photography
• Paul ChiharaOriginal Music Composer
• Dennis VirklerEditor
• Richard A. HarrisEditor

BAD NEWS BEARS GO TO JAPAN 35MM TRAILER - ORIGINAL 1978

Release date

June 30, 1978

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

PG

Revenue

$7,092,495

Genres

Comedy

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