How did Woody Allen turn a Japanese action movie into What’s Up, Tiger Lily?

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Woody Allen speaking into a microphone with hands raised beside his face during a press conference, against a red background. — Woody Allen American director Woody Allen attending a press conference for *Café Society* before the opening of the 69th Cannes film festival, 2016.

Woody Allen created his first film, What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), by taking the Japanese action movie International Secret Police: Key of Keys (1965) and redubbing it with entirely new dialogue. By replacing the original soundtrack, Allen shifted the film's narrative focus from its original premise to a comedic plot centered on the pursuit of a top-secret recipe for egg salad.1