The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)

Directed by

John Berry

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

PG

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The Bears travel to Japan for a baseball tournament. A promoter schemes to make money off the team.

lightheartedplayfulcomedicsports-themedcampydatedfast-pacedfun

What happens

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (also known as The Bad News Bears 3) is a 1978 American sport comedy film released by Paramount Pictures and was the third and last of a series, following The Bad News Bears and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. It stars Tony Curtis and Jackie Earle Haley and features Regis Philbin in a small role and Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki. About half of the original or "classic" lineup of Bears players return but many from the previous installments like Jose Agilar (Jaime Escobedo), Alfred Ogilvie (Alfred Lutter), Timmy Lupus (Quinn Smith) and Tanner Boyle (Chris Barnes) are not featured. Three new players are featured: E.R.W. Tillyard III (Matthew Douglas Anton), Abe Bernstein (Abraham Unger) and Ahmad Abdul-Rahim (Erin Blunt)'s younger brother, Mustapha (Scoody Thornton). This film was followed by a 1979 CBS-TV series, and by a 2005 remake of the 1976 film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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