Major League Baseball is celebrating the international growth of baseball and highlighting the 2025 MLB World Tour with the release of “Homecoming: The Tokyo Series,” a new documentary covering games played between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs in Japan.
MLB Studios partnered with BD4, Supper Club and Fathom Entertainment to create the film, which will be shown in theaters from Feb. 23-24, 2026. The documentary was directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jason Sterman and produced by Supper Club.
Premiering through Fathom Entertainment, the Tokyo Series film reveals how Japan’s culture, craft and devotion to baseball have helped shaped the evolution of the sport.
“In Japan, baseball is part of everyday life. It’s work, craft, and pride. We focused on the places where the game really lives, from workshops to local fields to people’s homes,” said Sterman, who served as a producer in addition to directing the film.
“The Tokyo Series gave us a clear look at how baseball sits inside the country’s identity. Getting close to the people who carry the game every day shaped the way we told this story.”
The Tokyo Series was a particularly powerful moment for the Japanese players who were on the Dodgers and Cubs and rosters at the time, with Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, Seiya Suzuki and Shōta Imanaga enjoying an opportunity to return home.
The film focused on the Dodgers and Cubs opening the 2025 regular season in Japan, with five of the country’s biggest baseball stars taking the field on home soil together for the first time since joining MLB.
For MLB, the film represents an opportunity to capitalize on their recent success and showcase baseball’s increasing reach across the globe.
“Major League Baseball continues to transcend around the globe,” MLB deputy commissioner Noah Garden said. “The 2025 season started in grand fashion with five Japanese-born MLB players returning home as larger-than-life sports figures. It ended with the great Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki and the Dodgers winning the World Series, watched by record-setting global audiences.
“Collaborating on this film to showcase how America’s pastime has become a world game is an opportunity we couldn’t pass up and are excited for fans everywhere to see.”
Where to buy tickets for MLB Tokyo Series movie
Tickets for “Homecoming: The Tokyo Series” will be available in January 2026 at Fathom Entertainment and participating theatre box offices (locations are subject to change).
For more information and to sign up in order to be notified when tickets go on sale, visit Fathom Entertainment.
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