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

[Roland Domenig]

Matsui Hisako's YUKIE (Solitude Point, 1998) is about a Japanese women
married to an American and her struggle with Alzheimer disease.

Morimoto Isao's ICHIGENSAN (The First Timers, 1999) based on the novel of a
former exchange student from Switzerland about the love affair of a western
student to a blind Japanese girl.

One of the protagonists of Miike Takashi's BLUES HARP (1998) is the kid of a
black American GI and a Japanese mother.

Since Graham mentioned Ann Hui's SONG OF THE EXILE. There are several films
by Non-Japanese directors who deal with inter-racial and inter-national
relations with Japanese. For example Claude Gagnon's THE PIANIST (Canada
1991) and Solrun Hoaas' AYA (Australia 1991) or the classical HIROSHIMA MON
AMOUR by Alain Resnais (1959).

Roland Domenig
Institute for Japanese Studies
University of Vienna