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Director:
Koki Mitani
Writer:
Koki Mitani (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
8 November 1997 (Japan) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
A radio play is going to go on air at a Tokyo radio station. It is a weepy melodrama written by housewife Miyako... more | add synopsis
Awards:
17 wins & 9 nominations more
User Comments:
what movies are meant to be more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Toshiaki Karasawa ... Manabu Kudo, the director
Kyoka Suzuki ... Miyako Suzuki, the writer
Masahiko Nishimura ... Tatsuhiko Ushijima
Keiko Toda ... Nokko Senbon
Jun Inoue ... Hiromitsu Hirose
Toshiyuki Hosokawa ... Hamamura Jo
Kaoru Okunuki ... Sumiko Nagai
Zen Kajiwara ... Harugoro Otaguro
Moro Morooka ... Bucky, the writer
Yoshimasa Kondo ... Shiro Suzuki, Miyako's Husband
Akira Fuse ... Shuji Horinouchi
Shunji Fujimura ... Mansaku Iori
Shirô Namiki ... Suhuru Hosaka
Hiromasa Taguchi ... Makoto Tatsumi, sound mixer
Yasukiyo Umeno ... Furukawa
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Radio no jikan
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
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Runtime:
103 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Toshiyuki Hosokawa introduces his character as Donald McDonald after seeing a McDonald's fast food bag. The reason for this is because Ronald McDonald is known as "Donald McDonald" in Japan. more
Movie Connections:
References Tampopo (1985) more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
what movies are meant to be, 6 September 1999
Author: Shourav Lahiri (shar-15) from Singapore

I bought the last available ticket to see Welcome Back, Mr McDonald this evening, having been unsuccessful at obtaining one for Love Letter. Maybe because I chanced upon this film, not having any expectations, I enjoyed it tremendously. Sure the film has some stock comic characters and stock comic situations and the premise (message?) may strike a chord in every struggling artiste's heart, but the grit with which this film is made is heartwarming. A novice playwright's maiden radio play gets torn to shreds by the powers that be as she hangs on, flailingly, to the emotion that she hopes to convey. A film that reminds us that our heart yearns for the underdog while our mind rationalises the behaviour of the seemingly tyrannical, this film reminds us of what movies are meant to be: an adventure where at the end you can't help but exclaim.

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