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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