Query: Japanese Films Set in New York City
tetsuwan@comcast.net
tetsuwan
Wed Jun 20 19:58:54 EDT 2007
There's the Murakami Ryu film KYOKO, I think that's the Japanese title. The English title is BECAUSE OF YOU. It starts out in NYC and ends up in Florida. It's a kind of cutesy look at the multicultural NYC set against the backdrop of an AIDS melodrama with a bit of SHALL WE DANCE tossed in. Murakami's sensitivity to the people of the city is a bit naive and sterotyped, however well intended. Good intentions, bad acting.
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Mark
http://dorknation.wordpress.com
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From: Michael McCaskey <mccaskem at georgetown.edu>
> I found the DVD--I especially like the Statue of Liberty on the disk.
>
> This list is truly a great resource--I've been looking around for days, and I
> got two very good solutions in less that 5 minutes.
>
> Thanks Again, Brian and Rob,
>
> Michael
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rob Smith
> Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:25 pm
> Subject: Re: Query: Japanese Films Set in New York City
>
> > The only thing that comes to mind is Love Collage (aka Collage of
> > our Life),
> > by Yukihiko Tsutsumi. It's sort of a detective story, I guess, but
> > not in a
> > hard boiled way, it's just a guy from Tokyo looking for the girl
> > he loves in
> > NYC. It's about photography as well. It's all right, but nothing
> > overlygreat. Ryoko Hirosue and Ryuhei Matsuda are the leads.
> >
> > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370425/
> >
> > On 6/20/07, Michael McCaskey wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been looking for a fairly recent Japanese film set in NYC,
> > which is
> > > not a crime or detective film.
> > >
> > > I've come across "Last Love," a new film starring Tamura
> > Masakazu--but it
> > > seems to be a Yoshi-type melodrama, and a DVD of it is not
> > likely to come
> > > out soon in any case.
> > >
> > > There's also another Tamura film, "Furuhata Ninzaburo: New York
> > de no
> > > Dekigoto" (1996), but it's a TV detective episode.
> > >
> > > I got Odagiri's "Hazard," but it's a crime film.
> > >
> > > I also got "Sakura Taisen New York NY," but it's way too cute
> > for my
> > > purposes.
> > >
> > > I would think there must be some good Japanese films set in NYC.
> > I'd even
> > > settle for an NYC episode within a film, like the Paris ending
> > of "Tokyo
> > > Tower." (I'm not necessarily saying that "Tokyo Tower" is all
> > that good
> > > itself.) Or a TV drama.
> > >
> > > I'm sure I've missed some, maybe many, Japanese films set in
> > NYC, and
> > > would appreciate information you might have about them.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > -rob
> > http://www.robixsmash.com/
> >
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