High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gung Ho is a 1986 Ron Howard comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe. The film's story portrayed the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title of the film is actually an Americanized Chinese expression, for "work" and "together"). The film was rated PG-13 in the US and certified 15 in the UK.