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Was later made into a TV show with Gedde Watanabe and Scott Bakula.
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* [[The Alleged Car]]: Some of the last few of the 15,000 cars they had to build in a month were...well...they never intended them to ''leave the factory'' like that...
* [[California Doubling]]: Many scenes are shot in, of all places, Argentina, home to a Fiat factory that was half-abandoned but still full of partly completed cars and they were allowed to film in.
* [[Cultural Posturing]]:
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* [[The Eighties]]
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey It's That]] <s>Guy</s> [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Car]]: European viewers will recognize most of the "Assans" as Fiat Regatas; in the baseball scene Dodge Omnis are used while the original poster and [[VHS]] packaging showed a Plymouth Turismo.
* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]
* [[My Card]]: "Anyone got any Subaru or Suzuki? No? Go fish."
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* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: Japan building factories in or taking over companies in America was a very real concern in [[The Eighties]] (beginning in 1982 when Honda opened a plant in Marysville, OH) and this movie explores the idea of two cultures working together to fulfill a common goal (making big money.)
* [[Salaryman]]: Kazuhiro
* [[Shout
* [[Switch to English]]: Takahara Kazuhiro's wife starts speaking Japanese to him in one scene, but he tells her to practice her English and they continue the conversation in English.
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