Comedy
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?
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Angels in the Outfield
Bad News Bears
Crows Zero
Hollywood Hobbies
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death
Gung Ho
Red Shadow
Beer League
Always - Sunset on Third Street
Adrift in Tokyo
Sadako DX
Everyone's Hero
The Taste of Tea
Success
My Life Changed When I Went to a Sex Parlor
As the Gods Will
Chibi Maruko-chan: The Boy from Italy
Jossy's
Love Song for Rapper
SIMILAR MOVIES
Angels in the Outfield
IMDB 6 | Jul , 1994
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn the team around. Sure enough, his prayers are answered in the form of angel Al.Bad News Bears
IMDB 5.9 | Jul , 2005
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.Crows Zero
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 2007
The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself do it as he reminds him of his youth.Hollywood Hobbies
IMDB 5.6 | May , 1939
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.Dead or Alive 2: Birds
IMDB 6.8 | Dec , 2000
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death
IMDB 7 | Apr , 2008
Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.Gung Ho
IMDB 6 | Mar , 1986
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.Red Shadow
IMDB 4.8 | Aug , 2001
The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and defeat the enemy to build a world of peace. Akakage, Aokage, and Asuka are rookie ninjas under the tutelage of Shirokage. Their life is a series of perilous missions that entail intrigue, deception and intimidation.Beer League
IMDB 5.1 | Sep , 2006
An unemployed slacker inspires his softball teammates to improve their game to avoid getting kicked out of the local league.Always - Sunset on Third Street
IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 2005
Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer Junnosuke strive alongside them in postwar Tokyo's evolution.Adrift in Tokyo
IMDB 7 | Nov , 2007
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.Sadako DX
IMDB 4.6 | Oct , 2022
Ayaka Ichijo is a graduate student with an IQ of 200 who tries to investigate the strange deaths happening nationwide after people supposedly watched a cursed video and her younger sister also did the same out of curiosity.Everyone's Hero
IMDB 5.9 | Aug , 2006
A boy begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth's baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series comes to a close.The Taste of Tea
IMDB 7.5 | Jul , 2004
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.Success
IMDB 0 | Jun , 1931
Elmer proposes to Molly, but she says he needs her fathers permission. He wants Elmer to become a ballplayer, but his eyesight keeps getting him into trouble. Elmer also needs a new pair of glasses.My Life Changed When I Went to a Sex Parlor
IMDB 3.9 | Nov , 2013
Live action film adaptation of a romance that was turned into a book after making a splash on the Internet bulletin board “2 Channel.” Humorously depicts a 29-year-old virgin who meets a prostitute, and struggles with love. Directed by Iizuka Ken of Arakawa Under the Bridge.As the Gods Will
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 2014
High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.Chibi Maruko-chan: The Boy from Italy
IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 2015
Students from five different countries arrive in Maruko's town. Maruko and her classmates can barely contain their curiosity, and their new friends are full of surprises. And Maruko's family will house a boy from Italy!Jossy's
IMDB 6.4 | Jun , 2014
To battle a malicious monster, five women are gathered in front of Commander Charles against their will. The five women are selected because they each have a family name that represents a color. The five women are filled with doubts about what they are able to do collectively, but they go up against the monster using their lethal technique "Women Tornado". The five women can only use the "Women Tornado" when they are all gathered together.Love Song for Rapper
IMDB 5.3 | Oct , 2004
Two brothers from a dysfunctional family chase their respective dreams while engaging in other bizarre antics. One brother dreams of becoming a manga artist and the other wants to be a professional baseball player.