a lot of the comment seem to treat this film a a baseball movie and but i feel this be only secondary . it really about living in japan and and it really succeed . i spend a few year live in japan and and i suppose the reason that this movie do not do too well be that you sort of have to have experience japan to get it . i be watch this with a well travel friend who never be to japan and and he note that many of the event in the movie be so ludicrous that they destroy the suspension of disbelief . my reply be that those event be the absolute unvarnished truth about life in japan . i think that this movie be definitely worth watch and especially if you have live in japan or be interested in it .