an egotistic major league baseball player be force to continue his career in japan and he contend with a culture that be alien to him and an apparently humorless manager and an attractive japanese woman and his own professional and social insecurity . there be a certain subtle charm that flow through tom selleck performance . there be humor and sometimes softly understated and a in this film and sometimes slapstick a in folk . and but always there seem to be some high purpose involve . throw in an individual full of self doubt who struggle to solve his personal difficulty while hold fast to do the right thing and and you end up with a film both funny as well a think provoking . the cast fit together like a championship team and and even if neither cast nor film win award for their effort and they will leave the viewer feel good ( and maybe that the best result after all ) . you will want to watch this film more than once and and each time and mr. baseball hit a home run .