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Yar, you be here: Mr. Baseball > Customer Reviews Mr. Baseball Customer Reviews (1 - 3 of 12 Reviews)baseball at it's worst
so that's what happened to selleck's career. this is a horrible movie with bad swings, bad acting and a trashy love story that pretty much demeans all women especially those that are japanese. do yourself a favor and don't waste your money or an hour and a half of your life watching this "plotline" unfold. Fun
This is a fun, off-beat movie about a gaijin (foreign) baseball 'has-been' hired to play for the Chunichi Dragons when no one wants to sign him in the US. The hot-dogging American begrudgingly flies to Japan and is almost instantly overwhelmed by a completely different culture which does not value hot dogs (at least not the human kind). Cultures clash as he slowly realizes that baseball is a team sport! This is a thoroughly enjoyable movie, not only from the perspective of baseball, but from the culture-shock element. Of course the Japanese are somewhat stereotypical, as is Selleck's American superstar, but that's why this is a movie and not a documentary. Interestingly, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation has quite a few similar elements in it, including the insomnia and late-night television watching, as well as the bewildering experience of trying to understand Japanese ads! Selleck, like Murray, is made to perform in an ad, although Murray's "rat pack" imitation is far more suave than Selleck dressed as a sumo wrestler. A fun watch! The title says it all!
The working title for this film was "Tokyo Diamond". Tom Selleck,late of TV's "Magnum PI",is an American baseball player who is transferred to a Japanese team after the American team officials believe that Jack(Selleck) is unsatisfactorily playing. In Japan,he meets beautiful Hiroko and falls in love with her. Hiroko ends up joining Jack in going back to the United States. Hiroko's father owns the Japanese team that Jack plays for. This is somewhat like the real-life union of Yoko Ono and the late John Lennon. After success in Japan,Jack is welcomed back to his American team. Dennis Haysbert had a supporting role in this film,probably in part because he appeared in the 1989 Paramount film MAJOR LEAGUE. All-American Jack couldn't quite adjust to the customs of the Japanese. Great film!
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