Query: Japanese-Foreigners Love affairs/ai-no-ko

[AyeletZ@camera.org.il]

Thank you very much, it is a great list, indeed!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Aaron Gerow [SMTP:gerow at ynu.ac.jp]
> Sent:	? ??? 09 2000 11:58
> To:	KineJapan
> Subject:	Re: Query: Japanese-Foreigners Love affairs/ai-no-ko
> 
> >In Shoot, My Darlin (forgot the Japanese title & director's name),
> >there is a love affair between a Japanese bodyguard and the Chinese girl
> 
> It's called _Koroshiya to usotsuki musume_ and is directed by Osawa 
> Hitoshi.
> 
> For other choices, many of the wartime films of Ri Ko Ran, like _Shina no 
> yoru_, featured affairs between Japanese men and her playing a Chinese 
> woman (which became the symbol for Asian unity under Japanese patriarchy).
> 
> Imai Tadashi's _Kiku to Isamu_ is the most famous film about children of 
> interracial marriages.
> 
> Hara Kazuo's _Kyokushiteki erosu_ includes a section where his former 
> wife is involved with a black American.
> 
> Yanagimachi Mitsuo's _Ai ni tsuite Tokyo_
> 
> Tashiro Hirotaka's _Afureru atsui namida_
> 
> The personal documentary _Tsuma wa Filipina_ by Terada Yasunori.
> 
> Yamamoto Masashi's films like _Junk Food_ and _Atlanta Boogie_ have 
> international couples (in the former, one ends in murder).
> 
> Of course, Sai Yoichi's _All Under the Moon_.
> 
> One of the more famous characters of mixed couplings in jidaigeki is 
> Nemuri Kyoshiro in the _Sleepy Eyes of Death_ series.
> 
> Miike Takashi's _Bird People of China_ features a Chinese girl who has 
> mixed Chinese and English parentage.  His other films like _Rainy Dog_ 
> include couplings involving Japan, but Miike is rarely interested in love 
> affairs in his action films.
> 
> Most of these are available on video in Japan, but as far as I know only 
> the _Sleepy Eyes of Death_ films (ironically?) are available abroad.  
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> That's all I can think of for the time being, but I'm sure more will come 
> up later.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Aaron Gerow
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