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| ACTORS: | Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Ron Howard |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 14 March, 1986 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Paramount Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 097360175141 |
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Customer Reviews of Gung Ho
Ironic in retrospect It was through this movie that I was first introduced to Michael Keaton, who I consider one of my favourite actors. The strength of this movie is that it tells the story for both sides of the cultural barrier and doesn't portray one as being better than the other. It is a film that both Westerners and Japanese can relate to. (In comparions, 'Mr Baseball' pushes the 'west is best' attitude when it comes to that sport.) Last year I rented 'Gung-ho' for the first time in many years. Watching this movie, while working in Japan, makes the premise ironic in retrospect. One needs only to look at Nissan , a once mighty automaker (and probable inspiration for the movie's 'Assan Motors') that had to turn to Renault to help it out, to see that fortunes in the Japanese economy have changed greatly since the time of this movie. Hence, the film is interesting in a nestalgic sort of way too.
Great Movie!
I saw this movie as a result of a discussion on Japanese cars, and their physical superiority to American cars. Conveniently, my vocational teacher had a copy of this movie around [actually,he rented it from Hollywood Video]. I immediately fell in love with Keaton and his acting. But then again, here I am, expecting to see Pokemon adorning every possible sign in the Japanese streets, when the teacher tells me that this movie was made a long time before Pokemon. However, all subtle stupidities aside, I thought it was a great movie; very reflective of Japan's style of automotive building, and of America's socio-economic condition [at the time of filming,anway]. It fully illustrated to me the essence of what our teacher had been grunting on and on about all year; that America will take whatever steps necessary to avoid any decent, hard labor. All in all, it's a well-round film-good casting [Keaton, Goodman],great acting [especially on Keaton's side of things],and an AMAZING plot. I mean, you just don't see movies like this anymore!
Working Class Man
This movie was released in Australia as 'Working Class Man' and I believe that it even had the Jimmy Barnes hit dubbed into the sound track at the end of the movie.
Thoroughly enjoyed the movie and encourage anyone who has not seen it to have a look and judge for themselves.
From an Australian point of view, still too American, perhaps some fun made of the Japanese, but like I said, judge for yourselves.