Mr. Baseball and the Difficulties of Cultural Assimilation

Just caught Mr. Baseball on HBO in my hotel room. Curious what you all think about the international sociological issues presented in the movie. I thought Schepisi was clearly aiming for a movie about the difficulties of assimilation (as he also did with Iceman), which he nailed, but I’m left wondering if Jack experienced re-entry shock when he returned to the United States with Hiroko (I’d like to see these issues further explored and presented in a Mr. Baseball 2). Also, while Jack possibly felt an attraction to Hiroki based partly on the novelty of her different ethnicity, did she likewise experience an attraction to him based on the fact he was unusually hairy? I felt that this plot point was undeveloped.