Gung Ho is a 1986 Ron Howard comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe. The film's story portrayed the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title of the film is actually an Americanized Chinese expression, for "work" and "together"). The film was rated PG-13 in the US and certified 15 in the UK.
When a Japanese automaker takes over a failed American auto plant,...
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Gung Ho is a 1986 Ron Howard comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe. The film's story portrayed the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title of the film is actually an Americanized Chinese expression, for "work" and "together"). The film was rated PG-13 in the US and certified 15 in the UK.
When a Japanese automaker takes over a failed American auto plant, differences between American and Japanese work ethics threaten to close the plant.
The local auto plant in Hadleyville, Pennsylvania, which supplied most of the town's jobs, has been closed for nine months. Former foreman Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) goes to Tokyo to try to convince the Assan Motors Corporation to reopen the plant. The Japanese company agrees, and upon their arrival in the U.S., they take advantage of the desperate work force to institute many changes. The workers are not permitted a union, are paid lower wages, are moved...
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