Yokohama and Yokosuka

[Michael Kerpan]

Shimizu's Japanese Girls at the Harbor fedatures Yokohama and its port .

MEK

--- On Thu, 7/16/09, Ken Shima <nihoneiga1960 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ken Shima <nihoneiga1960 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Yokohama and Yokosuka
> To: "KineJapan" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 11:48 PM
> For a long time now I keep wishing a
> programer here in Tokyo would put together a series on films
> set in Yokohama. Films that explore the interconnection
> of  industry and confluence of cultures that take place
> in port cities and that place Yokohama as a contrasting
> urban space to Tokyo.
> 
> Since I have yet to see a program like this I wanted to ask
> people's recommendations of films that are set or deal with
> the space of Yokohama or other ports of trade in Japan
> (Yokosuka, Kobe, Hakodate etc). In terms of time period I'm
> most interested in the 50s-70s. Some examples of what I've
> been thinking of are "Mondays with Yuka/月曜日のユカ"
> and "Pigs and Battleships/豚と軍艦".
> 
> Any other films that you can think of that fit these
> criteria?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Kenneth Shima