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<DIV><FONT size=2>From: </FONT><A title=SHUY@aol.com
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<DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=11 face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック" size=2
FAMILY="FIXED">>2 Any postwar (preferrably last twenty years or so)
Japanese movies that depict American person/people. <BR><BR>This is a
question that seems to turn up every once in a while in this group. If we
pooled our resources I bet we could come up with a very long list of "foreigner"
characters in Japanese films. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Here are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.
Some of these are leading roles, others are very small roles. I
apologize if I mix anything up.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Yassa mossa (1952) - At least one American, and one
other character whom I believe is French.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Mikko zero rain (1960) - I remember at least one very
minor character.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Abashiri bangaichi bokyo hen (1965) - Not American, but
there's one young girl who's the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American
military man.</FONT></DIV><FONT size=2>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2>Kyuketsuki gokemidoro (1968) - One
of the passengers on the plane is an American woman.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Saraba natsu no hikari (1968) - I think
Okada Mariko's (ex) boyfriend in the film is American.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Tokugawa onna keibatsu-shi (1968) - A few foreign
women get tortured.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Summer Soldier (Sama soruja, 1972) - The story is
about American military personnel who go AWOL in Japan.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Nihon chinbotsu (1973) - I remember the
Australian characters, but are there Americans too?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Kobe kokusai gyangu (1975) - I'm not
positive about this one either. There are several "Asians"
though.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Fukushu suru wa ware ni ari (1979) - Brief
appearance by some American military. As Mitch Cullin noted you can find
this sort of thing in quite a few films.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Boku wa tenshi janai yo (197-?) - One eerie scene
with a character dancing around in blackface.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Africa Story (Afurika monogatari, 1980) - James
Stewart (!!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Zigeunerweisen (Tsigoineriwaizen, 1980) -
One very minor American character.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Fukkatsu no hi VIRUS (1980) - Most of the cast is
non-Japanese.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Kapone oi ni naku (1985) - The story is set mostly in America.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Hyoryu kyoshitsu (1987) - Several of the main
characters.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Bedtime Eyes (Beddotaimu aizu, 1987) - Lead character, but I can't
remember if he's supposed to be "American" or of some other nationality.</DIV>
<DIV>Kyoko (1996) - Several characters.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Puraido: Unmei no Toki (1998) - American
military at the war crimes trial.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Tsuka to kinpatsu (2000) - Kimura Eri plays a blonde "American"
exchange student.</DIV>
<DIV>Pistol Opera (Pisutoru opera, 2001) - One indestructible American
assassin.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">I have a vague memory of seeing a non-Japanese
character in one of the Shintoho Line/Chitai Series films, but I can't remember
which one it was. </FONT></FONT><FONT face="MS UI Gothic"><FONT
face="MS UI Gothic">While I'm at it here are a few titles with "Asian"
characters:</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Arigato-san (1936)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Onna shinjuo no fukushu (1956)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Zoku haikei tenno heika sama (1965)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Ikiteiru uchi ga hana nanoyo, shindara sore made
tosengen (1985)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Tsuki wa dotchi ni deteiru (1993)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Gakko (1995) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">Go (2001) </FONT></DIV>Hotaru (2001) - The
Furuhata/Takakura film.</DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">KT (2002) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic">If you looked at animated films and series as
well I'm sure you'd come up with a huge number of non-Japanese characters.
For two recent examples, Cowboy Bebop and Final Fantasy. (In the latter
however I'm not sure if we would say they are "Americans" in a
"Japanese film" or it is a "Japanese" in an "American film".) Chinmoku no
kantai has several Americans. Kurenai no buta is set in Italy,
but still has one American. I think Momotaro: umi no shinpei also has a
few American characters.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Michael Arnold</FONT><FONT size=2></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>