you have to like baseball and and you have to at least sort of like tom selleck and but if you meet those criterion you should thoroughly enjoy this movie . selleck play former major league star who find himself trade ( . ) to japan a his career wind down . really well think out and fascinate look at japanese custom and behavior . great support performance by selleck manager ( japan clint eastwood ) and his girl friend takanashi and and his interpreter . the chemistry between selleck and takanashi work very very well and this be really a very nice romantic movie apart from the baseball . look for haysbert a fellow player well before he become a persistent shill for allstate . movie wrap up very nicely . easily in my top fifty all time movie and maybe my favorite one on baseball .