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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (US Version) DVD Region 1

Suzuki Kyoka (Actor) | Toda Keiko (Actor) | David S. Goyer (Actor) | Nishimura Masahiko (Actor)
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Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (US Version)
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All Editions Rating: Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9.8 out of 10 (6)

YesAsia Editorial Description

This Japanese comedy centers around the broadcast of a radio play, "Woman of Destiny", written by a housewife named Miyako who won the station's on-air contest. The play is a simple story about a fishing village romance, but shortly before the play is to have its first performance, the show's lead actress, Nokko, demands that her character become an American named Mary Jane. Though this requires parts of the script to be rewritten hours before they go on-air, the radio station agrees. However, when her male costar also demands his character be Americanized, and named Donald McDonald no less, Miyako and the show's producers are thrown into a frenzy. Both a hilarious farce and a wicked satire on Japanese and American culture, WELCOME BACK, MR. MCDONALD is a hugely entertaining comedy.

"...An endearing farce about love and logic..." - Mary, Houlihan (Chicago Sun-Times Critic), Chicago Sun-Times, 03/14/2003

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Product Title: Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (US Version) Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (US Version) Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (US Version) Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (US Version) Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (US Version)
Artist Name(s): Suzuki Kyoka (Actor) | Toda Keiko (Actor) | David S. Goyer (Actor) | Nishimura Masahiko (Actor) | Toshiakai Karasawa (Actor) 鈴木京香 (Actor) | 戶田惠子 (Actor) | David S. Goyer (Actor) | 西村雅彥 (Actor) | Toshiakai Karasawa (Actor) 铃木京香 (Actor) | 户田惠子 (Actor) | David S. Goyer (Actor) | 西村雅彦 (Actor) | Toshiakai Karasawa (Actor) 鈴木京香 (Actor) | 戸田恵子 (Actor) | Ｄａｖｉｄ　Ｓ． Ｇｏｙｅｒ (Actor) | 西村雅彦 (Actor) | Toshiakai Karasawa (Actor) Suzuki Kyoka (Actor) | Toda Keiko (Actor) | David S. Goyer (Actor) | Nishimura Masahiko (Actor) | Toshiakai Karasawa (Actor)
Director: Mitani Koki 三谷幸喜 三谷幸喜 三谷幸喜 Mitani Koki
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Release Date: 2003-03-18
UPC Code: 738329028329
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Country of Origin: Japan
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio: Letterboxed
Color Information: Color
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating: Not Rated
Publisher: Kino on Video
Package Weight: 108 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1004415043

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Director: Koki Mitani

DVD Features:

Region 0
Keep Case
Letterboxed - 1.85
Audio:
Stereo - Japanese
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Trailers
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Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9.8 out of 10 (6)

Terence
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December 25, 2008

This customer review refers to Welcome Back Mr. MacDonald
Classic Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
One of my all time favourites. Watched it over 10 times all these years, still enjoy it when there is garbage on tv. I would say this is the best work of the Mitani so far, all others after this one were like Ocean Twelve - just lots of stars, not funny at all, waste of time & $.

Own the vcd version, would love to buy the dvd with Tradition Chinese subs, but not available, sad.
Another one I highly recommend is Messenger by Iijima Naoko 飯島直子 and Kusanagi Tsuyoshi 草薙剛. Sadly that one I also only have vcd version...
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Kevin Kennedy
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May 29, 2008

This customer review refers to Radio no Jikan (Welcome Back Mr. McDonald) Standard Edition (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
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 Superb comic farce Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
"Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald" is a brilliant screwball comedy about a radio play gone seriously awry. Novice scriptwriter Suzuki Miyako (perfectly played by Suzuki Kyoka) is thrilled that she has won a scriptwriting contest and will have her script performed on air. (She is a bit deflated when she learns that no one else bothered to enter the contest.)

Her script tells a melodramatic tale of a pachinko parlor worker, married to an unsuccessful used-car salesman, who falls in love with a fisherman who saves her from drowning. But the script must be changed when the prima donna actress hired to play the lead begins making demands. She wants her character's name to be "Mary Jane" and wants her to have a more glamorous career ... say, a trial lawyer. Soon the other actors are making demands (the fisherman morphs into an astronaut named Donald McDonald), the script is being reworked and rewritten on the fly, and the end result is hilarious, nonsensical chaos, with poor Suzuki Miyako in agony as she sees her story torn to shreds.

It is amazing to consider that this film was the first directorial effort by Mitani Koki (who also wrote the script); his control over this comedic maelstrom is masterly. Apart from the marvelous comic timing, what makes this film so special is that it touches the basic human yearnings and foibles within us all.

I recommend "Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald" very highly. I also recommend director Mitani's most recent film, "Uchuoten Hotel" (also available from YesAsia), an equally charming, equally fast-paced comedy.
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Kat
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February 15, 2006

This customer review refers to Radio no Jikan (Welcome Back Mr. McDonald) Standard Edition (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
Hilarious and Clever Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
This film was based on a play both written and
directed by Koki Mitani. It was a wonderful satire
that was beautifully acted by an outstanding ensemble
cast. You would laugh it out very laudly.
Too bad as always in most of Asian cinema or series,
the end interview or special features are without
subtitles.
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Anonymous

July 11, 2003

This customer review refers to Welcome Back, Mr Mcdonald
welcome back mr. mac donald Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
I absolutely love this movie when I saw it on the big screen. ever since it came out I have been searching for this movie to buy. its the best foreign movie I've ever seen.
-"Mouse"
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June
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April 14, 2002

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HILARIOUS!!! Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
This is an entertaining and charming comedy about the screw-ups during a live radio drama episode ¡V very funning and heart warming and somewhat of a culture glimpse into Japanese fad with radio dramas and TV games shows.
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