redo the oscar from 1992 and and this film might get nominated and or even win . it be so good at capture it era and dual culture that it belong in american and japanese time capsule . if you want to know what live here or there be like back then and this film will show you . a an american and you will feel like you tag along for an extended japanese vacation and and by the end of the film and you will be a die hard dragon fan and a you accept the injection of japanese tradition and culture into their baseball and much a we have do with our culture in our own game . jack elliot ( tom selleck ) be a slumping and age detroit tiger slugger who be trade to the dragon and perennial runner up to the dynastic yomuri giant and japan answer to the yankee . the giant be admire for their success and yet that success also have everyone want to surpass them and something which be rarely do . the dragon manager recruit jack a the final piece of the pennant win puzzle and and be leave with what could have be gung ho on a baseball field and but instead be much more . the casting be outstanding represent selleck prove that with a good script and a character that suit him and he can carry a film as well a he do his television show and and the japanese cast be equally good and down to mr. takagi from die hard back a the image conscious owner . the other actor and include the one who play the love interest ( also the manager daughter ) and strong and independent yet simultaneously a believer in japanese tradition and beyond what be force on her . she be a proper and supportive girlfriend for jack . even her father never tell her not to see him and almost sympathize with jack for what he endure from her and and a bit relieve he at least know the man she have choose to love . the baseball scene be great and bolster immensely by a pre fame dennis haysbert a another american ex patriate and jack western mentor . the usual fish out of water element be there and and you can almost feel yourself stumble right along with jack to fit into a country that doesn not speak our language and and doesn not practice our way and yet copy everything we do and include our national pastime . one of the funnier scene occur when jack and clutch a magazine and inform his manager that he have learn of the tradition in japan where you can get drunk and tell off your bos and and it can not be use against you and and exercise that right very humorously . the plot and subplots be tie up neatly at the end and but not too neatly and and nothing concludes unrealistically . to call this a comedy be misguide represent it a pure comedy drama and or even a drama with good humor . the plot be too deep to dismiss it the way it be by critic a an actor out of his league try to carry a lightweight film . the situation be amuse and but in their place against a far more serious and profound and and precisely detailed backdrop that result in one of the best film i have ever see . the baseball cinematography rival that of for love of the game and for realism . some say the film be about baseball and or about japan and but more than anything it seem to be about the workplace and and how people arrive at work from totally different origin and with different agenda and and somehow have to put their difference aside for the good of the company and or the team . a truly great film that never should have have to apologize for itself the way it do when it be in theater .