Image from Tsuribaka Nisshi

Fishing for Deep Dot Pearls

[2 February 2007]

by tjmHolden

In many popular Japanese films, enduring elements of Japanese/US relations, endemic attitudes of superiority and equality among races, and volatile notions of convention and propriety are pitted against emergent, maverick, fun-loving difference.
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