Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)

Original title

ラヂオの時間

Directed by

Kōki Mitani

Genre

comedy film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

ALL

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 50 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A live radio drama production goes haywire when a housewife performer insists on changing her character name. The director and crew scramble to keep the show on air as the script gets rewritten on the fly.

lightheartedfast-pacedplayfulchaoticwittybrisktheatrical

What happens

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (ラヂオの時間, Rajio no Jikan; "The Time of Radio") is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Kōki Mitani. It was popular in Japan upon its release and won 3 Japanese Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best Supporting Actor (Nishimura Masahiko). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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