In the previous movie by this name, the American attitude toward the Japanese (with Randolph Scott showing the way) favored annihilation. This one, forty-odd years later, about a Japanese takeover of an American auto plant, inclines toward compromise. Which is not to say that the face-off between Japanese regimentalism and American rowdyism won't produce plenty of xenophobic potshots at a people who use chopsticks, eat seaweed, bathe in the river, do jumping jacks before work, and are mystified by such a vivid American idiom as: "Is a frog's ass watertight?" There is a modest amount of crow to be eaten by Americans as well (the movie's bravest moments); but in the end, compromise doesn't stand in the way of anyone's greater happiness, success, popularity, anything. What kind of compromise is that? Michael Keaton, George Wendt, and Gedde Watanabe; directed by Ron Howard. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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