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Gung Ho! (full title: Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders) is a 1943 American war film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott. The story is based somewhat on the real-life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson's 2nd Marine Raider Battalion.
Gung ho (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ ŋ ˈ h oʊ /) is an English term, with the current meaning of 'overly enthusiastic or energetic'. It originated during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) from a Chinese term, 工合 ( pinyin : gōnghé ; lit. 'to work together'), short for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives ( Chinese : 工業合作社 ; pinyin ...
Gung Ho (released in Australia and New Zealand as Working Class Man) is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton. The story portrays the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title phrase is an Americanized Chinese term).
Gung Ho: Directed by Ron Howard. With Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt, Mimi Rogers. When a Japanese automobile company buys an American plant, the American liaison must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
- Snoopystyle
- 2 min
- Ron Howard
Gung ho is an adjective meaning extremely or overly zealous or enthusiastic. It comes from a Chinese phrase that was misinterpreted as "work together" by a U.S. Marine officer in World War II.
Oct 18, 2019 · Today, we would Romanize it to gōng hé, but in the 1930s, the same sounds turned into kung ho, or gung-ho. So how did it go from describing a leftist co-op to an overzealous try-hard?
'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders: Directed by Ray Enright. With Randolph Scott, Alan Curtis, Noah Beery Jr., J. Carrol Naish. The true story of Carlson's Raiders and their World War II attack on Makin Island.
