Gung Ho

About Gung Ho

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.

Gung Ho is a 1986 comedy film directed by Ron Howard. Its themes are unemployment, factory, culture clash, and business.

Michael Keaton takes the lead as Hunt Stevenson, Gedde Watanabe as Oishi Kazihiro, George Wendt as Buster, and Mimi Rogers as Audrey. It runs 111 minutes and was released in March 1986.

The screenplay is by Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz. In the United States it streams on MGM Plus and MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Lost in Translation, and Modern Times make useful companions to Gung Ho, all filed under factory worker. TMDB voters put it at 6.1 out of 10 across 222 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.