Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Maybe you were thinking of the song
Sukiyaki? Japanese title was really translated as "I look up when I walk" and was sung in one of their most popular movies of the 1960's. But the song became a hit record over here under the name of what was them about the only Japanese dish any Americans had ever heard of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc
