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Availability: Out Of Print - This title is currently unavailable and/or out of print. Other versions may still be available; and will be listed on the right side of your screen. AKA: Welcome Back, Mister McDonald || Radio No Jikan || Rajio No Jikan Director: Koki Mitani (Kouki Mitani) Producer: Takashi Ishihara  ||  Kanjiro Sakura Released: 1997 [Japan] Genre: Comedy Keywords:  Actor / Acting || Celebrity || Character-Driven Story || Farce / Satire / Parody || Japan / Japanese || Radio

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Plot:	A radio station is going to broadcast a love story written by an ordinary housewife. However, the scenario keeps changing due to the selfish main actress. Nominated For 12 japanese Academy Awards, winner of 3. Copyright © 2000+ HKFlix, all rights reserved. No part of this text may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from HKFlix.
Overview:	Declared by the Los Angeles Times, a "classic screwball farce with high energy and wonderful comic timing," Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald is an exuberant and constantly surprising backstage farce that lovingly sends up Japanese society, American blockbuster mentality, and show business in general. As the cast of a Japanese radio melodrama's pre-show jitters boil over in the last fleeting moments before airtime, "Woman of Destiny's" temperamental star Nokko (Keiko Toda) demands certain "small" changes to housewife turned writer Miyako's (Kyoko Suzuki) soapy script. To Miyako's increasing horror, Nokko and her not-to-be-undone egotistical co-stars' increasingly arbitrary demands transform Miyako's autobiographical fishing village romance into an ersatz American gangster drama cum disaster epic. The ensuing live broadcast becomes an outrageously escalating screwball free-for-all where everyone from the show's unctuous producer to the network's parking lot security guard weigh in with confrontations, solutions, demands, and improvisations to keep their increasingly surreal and senseless runaway train of a story from jumping the tracks entirely. Working from his own script, first-time director Koki Mitani expertly knits together a crazy quilt of comic flourishes and character cliff-hangers. Upping the absurdist ante at every audacious turn, Mitani's prowling camera meticulously probes his ensemble's comically fragile psyches and frustrated desires while literally setting the stage for a triumphant show-stopper ending that would make Busby Berkeley proud.
Cast:	Toshiaki Karasawa  ||  Kyoka Suzuki  ||  Masahiko Nishimura  ||  Jun Inoue  ||  Shunji Fujimura  ||  Keiko Toda  ||  Akira Fuse  ||  Toshiyuki Hosokawa (Click any actor to search for more of their movies!)
Running Time:	103 mins. (approx.)
Languages:	Japanese
Subtitles:	ENGLISH
Distributor:	Kino Video  [A USA-Based Distributor]
Rating:	I - Suitable for all audiences (roughly equal to an MPPA rating of "G" or "PG") Films rated Category I contain nothing most parents will consider offensive for their children to see or hear. Nudity, drug use, explicit language, violence and adult situations are largely absent, and if present are seen only briefly and at a moderate level.
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