In the 60s, a Japanese song became incredibly popular not only in Japan but across the world. In Japan, it was called 上を向いて歩こう or roughly, “I Will Walk Looking Up.” It was an emotional song about the defeat of a popular Japanese protest movement against American military bases in Japan.

But people in English-speaking countries renamed it “Sukiyaki,” after a tasty Japanese dish which has absolutely nothing to do with what the song is about. It almost seems a little insulting — they might as well have renamed it “Sushi” or “Yakisoba.”

Little did we know that the Japanese have been exacting their revenge over our dumb translation for years, butchering American movie titles behind our backs. Fortunately, the all-knowing, all-seeing IMDB (Internet Movie Database) has the scoop on Japan’s translations and reinterpretations of movie titles.

Here are 10 of the worst Japanese translations and interpretations of American movie titles:

I can’t really see many people outside of the US really “getting” Napoleon Dynamite. Its humor is pretty strange, and was even kind of hit-or-miss in the states.

I love it when a Japanese movie title cuts right to the chase and tells you what the movie is about. What’s Karate Kid about? A kid who’s the best (around). What more do you need to say, really?

Even though You Only Live Twice is the only James Bond movie set mostly in Japan, so it’s a little confusing to see the title of it mangled so strangely.

I’m really not surprised that the Japanese changed the name of this movie — when it was marketed in the US, the movie posters had a pronunciation guide on them (“rat・a・too・ee”).

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