“Turning Japanese” is a song by English band the Vapors, from their 1980 album New Clear Days. It was an international hit, becoming the band’s most well-known song. The song prominently features the Oriental riff played on guitar.

Kirsten Dunst recorded a cover, with an accompanying video filmed and directed by McG and produced by Takashi Murakami in Tokyo in August 2009. The film exists because in 2009, McG was asked by London’s Tate Modern art gallery if he had anything he’d like to contribute to a video gallery installation, so he and Kirsten made this cover of The Vapors hit for the fun of it. The whole thing was shot in a day, and featured a lot of very perplexed Japanese locals.