“When East meets West, the laughs shift into high gear!”
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
Michael Keaton
Hunt Stevenson
Gedde Watanabe
Oishi Kazihiro
George Wendt
Buster
Mimi Rogers
Audrey
John Turturro
Willie
So Yamamura
Mr. Sakamoto
Sab Shimono
Saito
Rick Overton
Googie
Clint Howard
Paul
Jihmi Kennedy
Junior
Gung Ho is a comedy, drama film released in 1986 exploring themes of factory worker, factory, worker, japan, pennsylvania, usa, culture clash. Directed by Ron Howard, it stars Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt. When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
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