I saw the movie when it came out and purchased the DVD a couple of years ago. Am I mistaken or are there at least a couple deleted scenes?
I seem to remember Tom Selleck's character rounding the bases against imaginary opponents during a rain delay, and a bath scene with his nude girlfriend. Neither of these are on the DVD.
Are there anymore, and anyone know why they were taken out? Is there a DVD edition with all scenes?
My two cents worth:
The only version of this film that I've ever seen is the videotape edition that I purchased years ago. It was a former rental, so is probably one of the first home video editions of the film.
It doesn't have either of the scenes to which you are referring. There is the 'first kiss' bath scene, but Hiroko is not nude. There is nothing resembling imaginary opponents in a rain delay.
And my copy of the film does run 108 minutes, which is IMDBs listed running time.
So it would appear that if those two scenes existed, they were excised before the film ever made it to home video.
It is possible that there was a slightly different theatrical release version, but if so, I have no idea how one would go about double checking aside from tracking down an original film print...
I own both the VHS and DVD copy. All the scenes are there. There are no "imaginary" baserunners -- there is the training scene with Elliot and Takayama the manager where Jack is running sprints on the basepaths in the rain and falls, only to find his teammates have come out to run with him. It is a scene that illuminates the team spirit of Japanese baseball.
As for the supposed nude scene between Jack and Hiroko - it is a bath scene with no nudity at all, - Jack is shown from chest up (his expression getting into the hot water is priceless), and Hiroko is wearing a towel. The suggestion is certainly there, as they kiss in this scene.
While there was no nudity, it was this scene that caused the actress playing Hiroko (Aya Takanashi) her career. There was such outrage from the Japanese public over her love scene with a foreigner (Gaijin) that she was never offered another role in Movies or Television.
As others have already said, the "nude bath scene" did not include Aya Takanashi nude--she had a towel on.
As to the baserunning scene, is it possible you are confusing the "running through the sprinklers" scene from Bull Durham (when Crash Davis guaranteed a "rainout" by turning on the sprinklers at night and everyone running around the field) with this movie?
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His name...was Julio Iglesias!
maybe your thinking of Major League when Jake Taylor hits an home run and runs round the bases in the empty stadium
shareThere's the dream/nightmare scene at the beginning, if I'm not mistaken, that you could be thinking of. He keeps swinging and missing hopelessly until the count is something like "0-8" and yet the umpire and manager keep demanding that he get back in the batter's box and keep hitting.
shareThanks for the suggestions. It's possible that I've got the wrong movie. What I remember is the player not fitting in well with his teammates. It's during a rain delay and the field is virtually flooded with the tarps covering it.
In order to break the tension, he steps up to the plate empty handed and swings, acts like he hit the ball and runs to first. Either he "hits" a double or "steals" second sliding in a puddle at second. Eventually he makes it home much to the amusement of the other players.
I think you are confusing real life. That actually happened during a real baseball game...its a clip in one of the original Funniest Sports Bloopers videos that SI used to send to new subscribers.
I think it was at a Cincinnati reds game.
The players pretends to swing and rounds the bases and then slides into home plate on the tarp.
The baserunning in the rain is a commerical for something about the mid or late 90s and anytime a Japanese Woman is in a tub she should be nude. Its the only way to film a secne like that.
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There are three extra scenes on the Japanese Cut that I know about. One takes place after the calamitous, traditional Japanese meal, when its revealed Uchiyama speaks
english. Both Selleck and Uchiyama are walking through a graveyard and discussing
their own personal woes about their playing ability. Its sort of akin to Uchiyama
seeing Selleck as himself when he was a big player back in the day, and how he gave up. So in effect, he's attempting some redemption for Selleck and himself. The scene lasts a couple of minutes or so. I've been a big fan of the movie for years, and just recently saw this 'unknown' scene on Japanese cable tv. Also earlier in the movie after Selleck and Hiroko's first date when they arrive back at the apartment there is some extra banter about 'girls in the stands wooing' and that hiroko states that she was not that type or something like that. And another extra scene during the date to the shrine with some more dialog about the chief being a company man.
It was mentioned that the actress who played 'Hiroko' had her career hosed after this role. I don't know either way, but she did perform in a few other tv/movie roles.
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Baserunning scene is in the movie. During a training session Jack is running wind sprints between two bases. He's exhausted and falls just before reaching one of the bases. In a show of support, the whole team runs out to help him up and continue running the sprints along side, cheering him on. However, it is not raining. Gloomy, yes...raining, no.
Bathing scene is included in the movie, and as previously stated Hiroko is not nude...which s*cks! :-)
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I think you are confusing real life. That actually happened during a real baseball game...its a clip in one of the original Funniest Sports Bloopers videos that SI used to send to new subscribers.
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I think you're thinking of Bull Durham. Kevin Costner's character gets the team a rain out for the next day's game by turning the sprinklers on the field the night before. He and some other players round the bases in the mud. The bathtub scene is also in that movie with Costner and Susan Sarandon.
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