redo the oscars from 1992 and and this film might get nominated and or even win. it was so good at capturing its era and dual cultures that it belongs in american and japanese time capsules. if you wanted to know what living here or there was like back then and this film will show you. as an american and you will feel like you tagged along for an extended japanese vacation and and by the end of the film and you will be a die hard dragons fan and as you accept the injection of japanese tradition and culture into their baseball and much as we have done with our culture in our own game. jack elliot (tom selleck) is a slumping and aging detroit tigers slugger who is traded to the dragons and perennial runners up to the dynastic yomuri giants and japan answer to the yankees. the giants are admired for their success and yet that success also has everyone wanting to surpass them and something which is rarely done. the dragons manager recruits jack as the final piece of the pennant winning puzzle and and were left with what could have been gung ho on a baseball field and but instead was much more. the casting was outstanding represent selleck proved that with a good script and a character that suits him and he can carry a film as well as he did his television show and and the japanese cast was equally good and down to mr. takagi from die hard back as the image conscious owner. the other actors and including the one who plays the love interest (also the manager daughter) and strong and independent yet simultaneously a believer in japanese traditions and beyond what was forced on her. she is a proper and supportive girlfriend for jack. even her father never tells her not to see him and almost sympathizing with jack for what he endures from her and and a bit relieved he at least knows the man she has chosen to love. the baseball scenes are great and bolstered immensely by a pre fame dennis haysbert as another american ex patriate and jack western mentor. the usual fish out of water elements are there and and you can almost feel yourself stumbling right along with jack to fit into a country that doesn not speak our language and and doesn not practice our ways and yet copies everything we do and including our national pastime. one of the funnier scenes occurs when jack and clutching a magazine and informs his manager that he has learned of the tradition in japan where you can get drunk and tell off your boss and and it can not be used against you and and exercises that right very humorously. the plots and subplots are tied up neatly at the end and but not too neatly and and nothing concludes unrealistically. to call this a comedy is misguided represent it a pure comedy drama and or even a drama with good humor. the plot is too deep to dismiss it the way it was by critics as an actor out of his league trying to carry a lightweight film. the situations were amusing and but in their place against a far more serious and profound and and precisely detailed backdrop that results in one of the best films i have ever seen. the baseball cinematography rivals that of for love of the game and for realism. some say the film is about baseball and or about japan and but more than anything it seems to be about the workplace and and how people arrive at work from totally different origins and with different agendas and and somehow have to put their differences aside for the good of the company and or the team. a truly great film that never should have had to apologize for itself the way it did when it was in theaters. 
redo the oscars from 1992 and and this film might get nominated and or even win. it was so good at capturing its era and dual cultures that it belongs in american and japanese time capsules. if you wanted to know what living here or there was like back then and this film will show you. as an american and you will feel like you tagged along for an extended japanese vacation and and by the end of the film and you will be a die hard dragons fan and as you accept the injection of japanese tradition and culture into their baseball and much as we have done with our culture in our own game. jack elliot (tom selleck) is a slumping and aging detroit tigers slugger who is traded to the dragons and perennial runners up to the dynastic yomuri giants and japan answer to the yankees. the giants are admired for their success and yet that success also has everyone wanting to surpass them and something which is rarely done. the dragons manager recruits jack as the final piece of the pennant winning puzzle and and were left with what could have been gung ho on a baseball field and but instead was much more. the casting was outstanding represent selleck proved that with a good script and a character that suits him and he can carry a film as well as he did his television show and and the japanese cast was equally good and down to mr. takagi from die hard back as the image conscious owner. the other actors and including the one who plays the love interest (also the manager daughter) and strong and independent yet simultaneously a believer in japanese traditions and beyond what was forced on her. she is a proper and supportive girlfriend for jack. even her father never tells her not to see him and almost sympathizing with jack for what he endures from her and and a bit relieved he at least knows the man she has chosen to love. the baseball scenes are great and bolstered immensely by a pre fame dennis haysbert as another american ex patriate and jack western mentor. the usual fish out of water elements are there and and you can almost feel yourself stumbling right along with jack to fit into a country that doesn not speak our language and and doesn not practice our ways and yet copies everything we do and including our national pastime. one of the funnier scenes occurs when jack and clutching a magazine and informs his manager that he has learned of the tradition in japan where you can get drunk and tell off your boss and and it can not be used against you and and exercises that right very humorously. the plots and subplots are tied up neatly at the end and but not too neatly and and nothing concludes unrealistically. to call this a comedy is misguided represent it a pure comedy drama and or even a drama with good humor. the plot is too deep to dismiss it the way it was by critics as an actor out of his league trying to carry a lightweight film. the situations were amusing and but in their place against a far more serious and profound and and precisely detailed backdrop that results in one of the best films i have ever seen. the baseball cinematography rivals that of for love of the game and for realism. some say the film is about baseball and or about japan and but more than anything it seems to be about the workplace and and how people arrive at work from totally different origins and with different agendas and and somehow have to put their differences aside for the good of the company and or the team. a truly great film that never should have had to apologize for itself the way it did when it was in theaters. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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