Like Someone in Love (with Japan) – part 4

Like Someone in Love (with Japan) part 4 Japan as seen on film from without   Kill Bill (Vols. 1 & 2 [2003/04]) Quentin Tarantino – whose fourth and fifth films these are NOT! – has made a career of picking like a voracious magpie over those shiny bits and pieces of cinema and pop […]

Like Someone in Love (with Japan) pt. 3

Like Someone in Love (with Japan) pt. 3 Contemporary Japan as seen from without Following the numerous films made about Japan by foreign filmmakers in the wake of WWII there has been a relatively recent proliferation of the same, albeit by a more diverse series of directors and nationalities. In recent years a plethora of […]

Like Someone in Love (with Japan) Pt. 2

Like Someone in Love (with Japan) Pt. 2 Japan on Film from Without Sayonara (1957) Following The Teahouse of the August Moon Marlon Brando remained in Japan (narratively) and appeared in a film that is in many ways a companion to Daniel Mann’s in that it casts its lead in a diagrammatically opposing role. Sayonara […]

Like Someone in Love (with Japan) pt.1

Like Someone in Love (With Japan) Pt.1 Films About Japan as seen from Without LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (WITH JAPAN) – Part 1 In the post-WWII era a number of Hollywood works were made in and about Japan, often revolving around Japanese characters alongside characters from the US. These were generally both commercially and critically […]