Gung Ho (released in Australia and New Zealand as Working Class Man)[2] is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton.

Adding to the strain in the relationship, the Americans find humor in the demand that they do calisthenics as a group each morning and that the Japanese executives eat their lunches with chopsticks and bathe together in the river near the factory.

After nearly a month of working long hours toward a goal of 13,000—despite Hunt's pleas for them to aim for the full 15,000—the truth is discovered and the workers walk off the job.

He responds by addressing his observations that the real reason the workers are facing such difficulties is because the Japanese have the work ethic that too many Americans have abandoned.

While his audience is not impressed, Hunt, hoping to save the town and atone for his deception, and Kaz, desperate to show his worth to his superiors, go back into the factory the next day and begin to build cars by themselves.

The film's score was composed by Thomas Newman and features the songs "Don't Get Me Wrong" by The Pretenders, "Tuff Enuff" by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, "Breakin' the Ice" by Martha Wash, "Working Class Man" by Jimmy Barnes, "Can't Wait Another Minute" by Five Star, and "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister.

[6] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B" on scale of A to F.[7] Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote: "It's more cheerful than funny, and so insistently ungrudging about Americans and Japanese alike that its satire cuts like a wet sponge.

"[3] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave it a positive review and wrote: "The film would be funnier and more provocative if it took a stronger stand on one side or the other, but Howard chooses to hedge his bets, selecting an ending that celebrates brotherhood more than the strongly hinted- at notion that American workers would do well to get off their featherbedding backs.