Mr. Baseball
He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla!
1992 | 108m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Fred Schepisi |
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| Writer: | Gary Ross, John Junkerman, Theo Pelletier, Kevin Wade, Monte Merrick |
| Staring: |
| 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? | |
| Release Date: | Oct 01, 1992 |
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| Director: | Fred Schepisi |
| Writer: | Gary Ross, John Junkerman, Theo Pelletier, Kevin Wade, Monte Merrick |
| Genres: | Comedy |
| Keywords | japan, baseball |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $20,000,000
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Tom Selleck | Jack Elliot |
| Ken Takakura | Uchiyama |
| Aya Takanashi | Hiroko Uchiyama |
| Dennis Haysbert | Max 'Hammer' Dubois |
| Toshi Shioya | Yoji Nishimura |
| Kosuke Toyohara | Toshi Yamashita |
| Toshizo Fujiwara | Ryoh Mukai |
| Mak Takano | Shinji Igarashi |
| Kenji Morinaga | Hiroshi Kurosawa |
| Joh Nishimura | Tomohiko Ohmie |
| Norihide Goto | Issei Itoi |
| Kensuke Toita | Akito Yagi |
| Naoki Fuji | Takuya Nishikawa |
| Takanobu Hozumi | Hiroshi Nakamura |
| Leon Lee | Lyle Massey |
| Jun Hamamura | Hiroko's Grandfather |
| Mineko Yorozuyo | Hiroko's Grandmother |
| Shōji Ōki | Coach Hori |
| Tomoko Fujita | Hiroko's Assistant |
| Kinzō Sakura | Umpire #1 |
| Ikuko Saiton | Morita-san |
| Hikari Takano | Commercial Director |
| Art LaFleur | Skip |
| Greg Goossen | Trey |
| Nicholas Cascone | Doc |
| Larry Pennell | Howie Gold |
| Scott Plank | Ryan Ward |
| Charles Fick | Billy Stevens |
| Michael McGrady | Duane |
| Frank Thomas | Rookie |
| Michael Papajohn | Rick |
| Rolando Rodriquez | Manuel |
| Todd A. Provence | Young Ball Player |
| Frank Mendoza | Player - New York |
| Ken Medlock | Umpire |
| Carrie Jean Yazel | Coed in Bed |
| Mary Kohnert | Player's Wife |
| Makoto Kuno | Japanese Sportscaster |
| Michiyo Washizuka | Japanese Sportscaster |
| Shinsuke Aoki | Nikawa |
| Rinzoh Suzuki | Sato |
| Shintarô Mizushima | Sugita |
| Nobuyuki Kariya | Uemoto |
| Satoshi Jinbo | Tsuboi |
| Masanao Matsuzaki | Koboyshika |
| Shôtarô Kusumi | Takahashi |
| Katsushi Yamaguchi | Kobayashi |
| Hiro Nagae | Mutsui |
| Yoshimi Imai | Ishimara |
| Cin Chi Cheng | Itami |
| Makoto Kakeda | Umpire #2 |
| Shogo Nakajima | Umpire #3 |
| Bradley Jay Lesley | Niven |
| Garry Bassin | Bartender (uncredited) |
| Bob Costas | Himself (voice) (uncredited) |
| James Corey Kaufman | Fan (uncredited) |
| Tim McCarver | Himself (voice) (uncredited) |
| Adam Vargas | Cheering fan behind home plate (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Fred Schepisi | Director |
| Gary Ross | Screenplay |
| Jerry Goldsmith | Original Music Composer |
| John Junkerman | Story |
| Ian Baker | Director of Photography |
| Theo Pelletier | Story |
| Kevin Wade | Screenplay |
| Peter Honess | Editor |
| Monte Merrick | Screenplay |
| Alexander Courage | Orchestrator |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Ariel Levy | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 16 | 30 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 18 | 38 | 10 |
| 2024 | 6 | 15 | 29 | 7 |
| 2024 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 8 |
| 2024 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 6 |
| 2024 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 5 |
| 2024 | 10 | 11 | 27 | 6 |
| 2024 | 11 | 10 | 16 | 5 |
| 2024 | 12 | 11 | 26 | 6 |
| 2025 | 1 | 12 | 27 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
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Well, it's not the best film, however Mr. Magnum... Baseball... Tom Selleck does a great job of playing a stuck-up, egotistical chauvinistic well, zhlob and it might sound like an insult, but that is where the charm is. It's a movie where, at it's heart, it shows that Baseball transcends internat ... ional boundaries... and I firmly believe that once the rest of the world realizes it's better than soccer, that will be true. However, in the meantime, it's also a movie about the worst possible culture shock and the worst possible person to experience it. And, of course, it promises a happy ending, it promises that Mr. Baseball will learn from his mistakes, and it promises that baseball will prevail. And, of course, it delivers on that promise like all movies like this too, and, again, that is the charm. But, really, it's a baseball movie and it takes a lot to make them bad.