Mr. Baseball
He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla!
1992 · 1h 48m · PG-13
Comedy
Directed by
Fred Schepisi
Overview
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
Director and cast
- Fred Schepisi Director
- Tom Selleck as Jack Elliot
- Ken Takakura as Uchiyama
- Aya Takanashi as Hiroko Uchiyama
- Toshi Shioya as Yoji Nishimura
- Kosuke Toyohara as Toshi Yamashita
- Dennis Haysbert as Max 'Hammer' Dubois
- Toshizo Fujiwara as Ryoh Mukai
- Mak Takano as Shinji Igarashi
- Kenji Morinaga as Hiroshi Kurosawa
- Norihide Goto as Issei Itoi
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