Gung Ho

When a Japanese automobile company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.

In this beloved, 80s comedy-of-differences from director Ron Howard, Michael Keaton is a wheeler-dealer who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory by persuading a Japanese auto firm to reopen and streamline.

It isn't long before the American-born workers grow to resent the disciplinary demands of their new Japanese bosses, setting the stage for a comic clash of cultures.