The Hariyama Bridge

Over at Nippon Cinema, a story that I believe many US folks will find intriguing, at the intersection of African American and Japanese culture and history:

In the film, Daniel Holder (Ben Guillory) travels to Japan to claim some of the possessions left behind by his recently-deceased son Mickey. Mickey had moved to Kochi to teach English, and Ben’s prejudices brought on by his father’s death in World War II fighting Japanese cause a rift to form between them. His hatred for Japan is only made stronger by his son’s death occurring there, but when Ben meets the people who had become important to Mickey in Kochi, he’s forced to re-examine his feelings toward Japan.

The film, which was executive produced by Danny Glover, will be released in Japan on June 6th. Distributor Eleven Arts recently made it available for world sales.

Comments

[Quin]

Looks interesting, thanks Kai! I've never seen another Japanese film which examined their relationship with the foreigners in their midst. Though I saw a really cheesy Japanese TV movie about it once. This looks a cut above.

By the way, your link to Nippon Cinema is broken.

[Kai]

Thanks, Quin, link fixed. And yeah I haven't seen anything quite like this either. Seen movies about Japanese relationships with Chinese and Koreans, but that's another matter. Like, entirely.

[Cynthia]

Wow Look at Danny Glover getting his executive producing on! I want to see this!

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[A-woman]

Hey -- Thanks for posting this!