Directed by Steven Okazaki • 1987 • United States
Starring Minako Ohashi, Ken Nakagawa, Mitzi Abe
In this offbeat, charmingly lo-fi romantic comedy, a young Japanese woman (Minako Ohashi) trying to find herself in America enters into a marriage of convenience with an aimless Japanese American punk rocker (Ken Nakagawa) in order to avoid being deported. She barely speaks English, while he is thoroughly Americanized, right down to his penchant for junky breakfast cereals—does their relationship stand a chance?
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West Is West
Directed by David Rathod • 1987 • United Kingdom
Starring Ashutosh Gowariker, Heidi Carpenter, Pearl PadamseeHandsome and broke, Vikram (played by Ashutosh Gowariker, future director of the Oscar-nominated LAGAAN: ONCE UPON A TIME IN INDIA) arrives from Bombay to find his college plans have fal...
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The Wash
Directed by Michael Toshiyuki Uno • 1988 • United States
Starring Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Sab ShimonoAdapted from a play by Philip Kan Gotanda, this keenly perceptive drama focuses on the upheavals that rock a Japanese American family when the sixty-something Masi (Nobu McCarthy) announces she is ...
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Eat a Bowl of Tea
Directed by Wayne Wang • 1989 • United States
Starring Cora Miao, Russell Wong, Victor WongAn American-born husband and his Chinese-born wife cope with cultural confusion in Wayne Wang’s charming, warmhearted adaptation of the landmark novel by Louis Chu. It’s 1949 in New York City’s Chinatown ...
