The Bad News Bears Go to Japan poster

Movie · 1978

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

Released 30 June 1978 More from 1978 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.

FR·01

How old were they?

Oldest first
Hugh Gillin
as Pennywall
52
Tomisaburō Wakayama
as Coach Shimizu
48
Gene LeBell
as Mean Bones' Manager
45
James Staley
as Network Man #4
30
Michael Yama
as Usher
Unknown
FR·02

The numbers

Computed from the cast above
22years between the oldest and youngest billed
52Hugh Gillin — oldest on the call sheet
30James Staley — youngest billed
44average age of the credited cast
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