Gung Ho
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.
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Worldwide
- $37M
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Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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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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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Gung Ho returned 2.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $13M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $37M
- Release date
- Mar 14, 1986
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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