but France did it with movies as well, like "Wasabi" (with Jean Reno) French movie but produced in Japan and France with some Japanese actors and with the beautiful Ryoko Hirosue as Yumi in the movie, yes she speaks French in the movie but she's only repeating phonetically because she couldn't actually speak the language.
filmed in Japan without the approval of competent autorities for some of the locations lol, that's why you can see background characters looking at Reno or Ryoko because they weren't allowed to film in Tokyo but they did it in the streets full of passerby anyway, fuck the police and shit.
the "hole" scene :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gPOnCuxVtg