The feature documentary captures Major League Baseball’s 2025 World Tour and will get a cinema release early next year

Homecoming The Tokyo Series

Banijay Americas’ documentary label BD4 has teamed up with distributor Fathom Entertainment and Major League Baseball’s production label MLB Studios to launch feature documentary Homecoming: The Tokyo Series.

The film is directed by Emmy Award winning filmmaker Jason Sterman and produced by Supper Club, and will get a theatrical release 23-24 February 2026.

Homecoming: The Tokyo Series captures Major League Baseball’s 2025 World Tour, when the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs opened the regular season in Japan and five of the country’s biggest baseball superstars took the field on home soil for the first time together since joining MLB.

Homecoming: The Tokyo Series explores how baseball mirrors Japan’s values of craft, discipline, and devotion, while revealing the emotion, pride, and artistry that define the country’s deep connection to the game, said Supper Club.

It’s filmed across Japan and reveals how Japan took an American invention and infused it with its own values, rituals, and spiritual relationship to work. 

“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. 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,” said director and producer Jason Sterman.  

“Major League Baseball continues to transcend around the globe,” adds Noah Garden, MLB deputy commissioner, business & media. “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.” 

”Coming off perhaps the greatest game 7 in World Series history with the Dodgers repeating and Yoshinobu Yamamoto winning the World Series MVP, what a wonderful opportunity for Fathom to bring Homecoming: The Tokyo Series to theatres nationwide in advance of the 2026 World Baseball Classic and the 2026 MLB regular season,” said Charles Kane, programming lead on the project for Fathom Entertainment. “The game has evolved into a showcase for the greatest talents in the world and a true cultural bond between those in Japan and us here in North America. Homecoming: The Tokyo Series is a special look at the story behind some of Japan’s greatest superstars coming home and competing in front of their native fans.” 

“BD4 was built to make nonfiction with scale and intention, and Homecoming is a clear example of that ambition. This story demanded a real theatrical presence, and Fathom was the ideal partner to bring that scale and shared audience energy to life,” added Dan Silver of BD4. “MLB’s foresight in supporting a theatrical-first release for a story this layered and globally resonant speaks to how they see the sport and its audience. Making this film with my longtime friends at Supper Club, who match our creative drive, made the experience even stronger.”