Gung Ho (film)
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- This article is about the 1986 film. For the 1943 film see Gung Ho! (1943 film) for the article on the Chinese expression, see gung-ho.
| Gung Ho | |
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| Directed by | Ron Howard |
| Produced by | Deborah Blum |
| Written by | Edwin Blum Lowell Ganz Babaloo Mandel |
| Starring | Michael Keaton Gedde Watanabe George Wendt Mimi Rogers John Turturro Clint Howard Michelle Johnson |
| Music by | Thomas Newman |
| Cinematography | Donald Peterman |
| Editing by | Daniel P. Hanley Mike Hill |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 14, 1986 |
| Running time | 112 min |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Gung Ho is a 1986 Ron Howard comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe. It was filmed on location in and around Pittsburgh. The film's story portrayed the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title of the film is actually a Chinese expression for "work together"). Its tagline was "When East meets West, the laughs shift into high gear!". The film was rated PG-13 in the US and certified 15 in the UK.
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[edit] About
The film spawned a short-lived TV series of the same name. Almost all of the Asian actors reprised their roles from the movie. Clint Howard was the only caucasian actor from the film to appear in the TV show.
The movie was released in Australia under the title Working Class Man, which was also the title of one of the songs in the movie sung by Australian rocker Jimmy Barnes.
[edit] Main cast
- Michael Keaton - Hunt Stevenson
- Gedde Watanabe - Kazuhiro, the plant manager
- George Wendt - Buster, a factory worker and Hunt's friend
- John Turturro - Willie, another worker, also Hunt's friend
- Mimi Rogers - Audrey, Hunt's girlfriend
The film also features small supporting roles by Clint Howard, Rick Overton, Sab Shimono, Michelle Johnson, Rodney Kageyama and Patti Yasutake.
[edit] Filming
Though the cars used in the movie were supposedly built by the fictional Assan Motors, they are actually made by Fiat and the most commonly-seen model is the Fiat Regata. Many locations, as the ending credits show, were taken in Rosario, Argentina where the cars were produced.
Ironically, the film co-stars actor Gedde Watanabe, and 20 years later, Toyota, the company most closely associated to the cars in the movie, has as its CEO a man named Katsuaki Watanabe.
[edit] Impact
Toyota's executives used this film as an example of how not to manage Americans.[1]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Gung Ho at the Internet Movie Database
| Preceded by Pretty in Pink |
Box office number-one films of 1986 (USA) March 16, 1986 – March 23, 1986 |
Succeeded by Police Academy 3: Back in Training |
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