<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Baskerville" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Baskerville">I'd also recommend the film adaptation of Murakami Ryû’s <i>Almost Transparent Blue</i> (1979, Kitty films, available only on VHS and in Japan as far as I know). Murakami also directed, and this seems to have been Mitamura Kunio’s screen debut. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Baskerville; min-height: 20px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Baskerville" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Baskerville">The film includes black and white soldiers from Yokota Air Base, starkly differentiated, as well as young men and women supposed to be of Japanese, Korean, and “mixed-blood” descent, all cavorting about in the sex-n-drugs-filled backwater of Fussa, Tokyo-to.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Baskerville; min-height: 20px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Baskerville" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Baskerville">I haven't found much information on the African American characters in the film, though would be interested to learn more about Alexander ?Easely, who sings the original song “Queen of Eastern Blues” at the start of an orgy.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Baskerville; min-height: 20px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Baskerville" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Baskerville">Jason</font></div></body></html>