The Bad News Bears Go To Japan (1978)
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0% of critics liked it
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36% of users liked it
(6,379 ratings)
Filling the shoes occupied by Walter Matthau in the Bad News Bears and William Devane in The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, Tony Curtis takes on the role of the teams newest coach in this, the third installment in the series. Jackie Earle Haley returns as Kelly Leak, the Bears' star… More Filling the shoes occupied by Walter Matthau in the Bad News Bears and William Devane in The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, Tony Curtis takes on the role of the teams newest coach in this, the third installment in the series. Jackie Earle Haley returns as Kelly Leak, the Bears' star player, as the team ventures to the other side of the world to face off against the best little league team in Japan. While there, the Bears find their way into mischief and Kelly finds love with a local girl. Though this was the last entry in the film series a television series followed a year later. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Berry
- Written By
- Bill Lancaster
- Genres
- Comedy
PG,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1978 Wide
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Ryan Cracknell, Movie Views
So how much more can they get out of cussing kiddies playing baseball? Apparently an additional 91 minutes - 91 painful, horrendous, baseball-bat-to-the-crotch-three-times minutes.
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
And they can stay there.
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Michael A. Smith, Nolan's Pop Culture Review
Why, Lord, why?
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Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan
Enough of the Bears already! Even Matthau bailed out.
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Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
Thankfully the Bears retired after their return from Japan.
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Cast
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Tony Curtis
as Marvin Lazar
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Jackie Earle Haley
as Kelly Leak
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Tomisaburo Wakayama
as Coach Shimizu
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Hatsune Ishihara
as Arika
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George Wyner
as Network Director
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Lonny Chapman
as Louis the Gambler
- Chris Barnes
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Mathew Douglas Anton
as E.R.W. Tillyard III
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Erin Blunt
as Ahmad Rahim
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George Gonzales
as Miguel Aguilar
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Brett Marx
as Jimmy Feldman
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David Pollock
as Rudy Stein
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David Stambaugh
as Toby Whitewood
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Jeffrey Louis Starr
as Mike Engleberg
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Scoody Thornton
as Mustapha Rahim
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Dick Button
as Himself
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Hugh Gillin
as Pennywall
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Gene Lebell
as Mean Bones' Manager
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Dick McGarvin
as Network Man #3
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Regis Philbin
as Harry Hahm
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James Staley
as Network Man #4
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Don Watters
as Network Man #1
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Michael Yama
as Usher
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Jerry Ziesmer
as Eddie of Network
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Tak Kubota
as Referee
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Jerry Maren
as Page Boy
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Robert Sorrells
as Locke
