The Bad News Bears Go to Japan | |
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Directed by | John Berry |
Written by | Bill Lancaster |
Produced by | Michael Ritchie Fred T. Gallo (associate producer) |
Starring | Tony Curtis Jackie Earle Haley |
Cinematography | Gene Polito |
Edited by | Richard A. Harris Dennis Virkler |
Music by | Paul Chihara |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English Japanese |
Box office | $7.3 million (U.S./Canada rentals)[1] |
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (also known as The Bad News Bears 3) is a 1978 American sport comedy film released by Paramount Pictures and was the third and last of a series, following The Bad News Bears and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. It stars Tony Curtis and Jackie Earle Haley and features Regis Philbin in a small role and Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki in a role.
This film was followed by a 1979 CBS-TV series, and by a 2005 remake of the 1976 film.