Japanese film and the political right

[Michael Badzik]

Julie Turnock wrote:

> >For what it's worth, I'll add that this is something that is not 
specific 
> >to Asia; there are quite a few young Japanese women who have come   
> >here to California by themselves for the very same reasons. There was 
> >even an article about this trend in the Daily Yomiuri.
> 
> I saw that article in the Yomiuri as well, but was very disappointed 
> (though not surprised) by its extreme polarization of Japanese women's 
> experiences in America.  It seems one either wins an Oscar or becomes 
> a bar hostess.

Yes, the article did seem to highlight the sensational. But it wasn't the 
newspaper article that alerted me to the trend though, it was the fact 
that I keep running into so many of these women. I have also met even 
more Korean women doing exactly the same thing. Their experiences have 
been a bit more mundane than what was depicted in the Yomiuri article.
It is a fascinating subject, I think, both viewed as individual stories, or 
 
as a collective demographic trend, but I did not want to stray too far 
from the purpose of this list and so kept my previous comments brief. 

But now I have a good excuse to bring up the topic again, as I have just 
discovered that Todd Leong's documentary on the subject, _Office Lady 
Dreams_, is available for viewing at the the Sync Festival on-line film 
festival at http://www.thesync.com/festival/documentary.html.

Michael Badzik
mike at vena.com