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Comedy is certainly not the first thing that comes to mind when we think of Japanese cinema. But a few more films like Koki Mitani’s hilarious screwball farce “Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald” could change all that.

This movie is ostensibly a goofy comedy about a live radio drama that goes haywire after the imperious diva playing the lead insists on certain last-minute changes. Her demands set in motion a desperate chain of events that transform a sudsy romantic drama set in a Japanese fishing village into a ludicrous action-adventure fantasy set in the United States.

“Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald” can be taken as pure, giddy fun in a farcical tradition that has all but disappeared from American movie comedy in the age of the salacious gross-out. But it can also be taken as a good-natured invitation to Japanese culture to lighten up. Its manic surface only partially conceals its satiric barbs.
As the broadcast skids out of control, the movie pokes gleeful fun at the Japanese insistence on order and good manners at all costs and on the rigidity of corporate politics and pecking orders. Finally the movie ridicules Japan’s envious fascination with the gaudy detritus of American popular culture.

Rajio.no.jikan.(Welcome.Back,Mr.Mcdonald).1997.DVD.DD5.1.x264-MKu.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 43mn
Size: 	2.32 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	712x480 ~> 853x480
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 696 Kbps
BPP: 	0.329
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 Kbps (Japanese)

https://nitro.download/view/B3CDF1121B1A628/Rajio.no.jikan.(Welcome.Back,Mr.Mcdonald).1997.DVD.DD5.1.x264-MKu.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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