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In 1986, Hadleyville, Pennsylvania was fading fast. The car factory, engine of the local economy, was closed down and former autoworker and local union head Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) was sent to Tokyo to attract Assan Motors to take over the plant. They did, and [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensued]]. Gedde Watanabe played the [[Funny Foreigner]] who clashed/meshed/changed with Hunt.
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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'''Hunt:''' Oh yeah? Yeah, well if you guys are so great, how come you lost [[World War II|the big one]]? }}
* [[The Eighties]]
* [[Hey,
* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]
* [[My Card]]: "Anyone got any Subaru or Suzuki? No? Go fish."
* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: Kazuhiro
** [[Reassignment Backfire]]
* [[Ripped
* [[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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