<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 Ry��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>