You stay for something to happen in the movie, but nothing does.

Rating: 4/10 (27 August 2016)

As someone with a diverse taste and interest in films, I had a hard time to sit through this one. It's a love that could have been, but it could have been a story.
As it is, it's a little bit of everything, none of it very interesting or funny, and certainly not deep. There's nothing wrong with the cast, but the dialog is what drags them down to decidedly ordinary personalities.
The best explanation I can give for the Oscar is that it's written to trigger memories of exploits touring foreign countries in male movie stars, i.e. written for Hollywood. The rest of us don't get much out of it.
When I saw the movie I read Bob's character as that they wanted Sean Connery, but he declined. It would be interesting if this was in fact the case!
With Murray in his place, there were possibilities for making the could-be romantic a comedy, but the dialog and Murray's utterly inexpressive face puts a stop to that.
On the other hand, if someone's into joke after joke all boiling down to "japs can't speak English properly", this is a goldmine for those who think it's been too long since they did it on TV shows in the 1950s.