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Released
1986 · FILM

Gung Ho

“When East meets West, the laughs shift into high gear!”

Directed by
Ron Howard
Written by
Edwin Blum, Lowell Ganz
Runtime
111 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • MGM+

Synopsis

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, auto worker and broker Hunt Stevenson must navigate the complex task of bridging two opposing corporate cultures. On one side stands the Japanese plant manager and his ambitious, fawning assistant vying for leadership. On the other side, a group of long-time union members resist the new demands imposed by Japanese quality control standards.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Daniel P HanleyShot by Donald PetermanScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by James L Schoppe

Box Office

1986 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$36.6M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$36.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $7.2M — 20% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $9.0M — 25% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,150 theaters

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