Japan isn't as foreign as it could be.
Posted on 06/15/2004 7:51:45 PM PDT by Pikamax
Edited on 07/19/2004 2:14:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Bill Murray Does His Bit for Japan's Economy: William Pesek Jr. June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Seven thousand miles away, in New York City, Chris Alcazar heard Japan's siren song. The 36-year-old hastily booked a flight and visited the world's No. 2 economy for the first time.
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I rented this movie last weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. It brought back many memories of the first time I went to Japan in 1986. My ship was on deployment and needed some repairs that required two weeks in Sasebo. By the end of the two weeks I remember thinking how much I just wanted to go somewhere where I could read the signs.
I returned to Japan for duty in 1990 and ended up liking it so much I have been here ever since.
The Japanese who are upset about the way Japan is portrayed in this movie don't understand that the location was not central to this story. It could have done anywhere the language and culture were different from that of the central characters. To me this was brought home by the lack of subtitles when Japanese was used. What they were saying wasn't important, it was the fact that they couldn't be understood.
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Japan and the U.S. have always had a close relationship, although not always amicable.
As for the movie, we just rented it, and my impression of it was that it is about two Americans in Japan who are so bored that they decide to be generous and share their boredom... with the movie audience.
Japan isn't as foreign as it could be.
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