Welcome Back, Mr. Mcdonald
NR, 103 min.
Directed by Koki Mitani, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Keiko Toda, Masahiko Nishimura, Kyoka Suzuki, Toshiaki Karasawa.

Not reviewed at press time. The American title of this 1997 Japanese film, Rajio no jikan, makes this comedy sound like the cheery bottom half of a double bill with Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. The movie sets the stage for farce when a live radio drama goes haywire and begins a whole chain of events.

This article appears in April 7 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.