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7.8/10   570 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Kôki Mitani (screenplay)
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Release Date:
8 November 1997 (Japan) more
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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
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Awards:
17 wins & 9 nominations more
User Reviews:
A great movie about radio. more (15 total)

Cast

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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
Okunuki Kaoru ... Sumiko Nagai
Zen Kajiwara ... Harugoro Otaguro
Moro Morooka ... Bucky, the writer
Yoshimasa Kondô ... 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
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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
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References Tampopo (1985) more

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2 out of 2 people found the following review useful.
A great movie about radio., 19 December 2006
10/10
Author: ronsayles from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

This is the greatest movie about radio that I have ever had the pleasure of watching. It is the story of what can and does happen when changes are made to the script just before air time and while on the air. How the story gets wildly out of control and how sound effects are created, on the spot, by an ex-sound effects man who is now the security guard for the radio station. If you like radio as it once was, you will like this movie. It is a 1988 release with English subtitles, but don't let the fact that it has subtitles scare you away. They are in yellow and easy to read. As an added bonus one of the stars is Watanabe Ken who was nominated for a best supporting acting award for the movie "The Last Samurai."

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