Posted by Kevin Ouellette at 4:29am on Sunday, December 20, 2009
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Future releases, Trailer Updates
Here’s what I suppose technically counts as the second teaser trailer for Kazuaki Ue‘s My Darling is a Foreigner, but it’s the first with actual in-movie footage.
The film is based on Saori Oguri’s autobiographical manga serial which detailed her relationship with American journalist Tony Laszlo. Their film counterparts are portrayed by 22-year-old Japanese actress Mao Inoue and 35-year-old California-born actor Jonathan Sherr.
“My Darling is a Foreigner” will be released by Toho on April 10, 2010.
Source: Official website
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It may seem entertaining, but if you analyze the contents of
this film, the depiction of a “foreign” partner enforces
dangerous stereotyping which often results from, and leads to, prejudice and bigotry. It may seem to be a positive light in which the “foreign” partner is depicted, however, this can also have adverse effects on the Japanese psyche surfacing as “Gaijin Akogare” or Foreigner admiration.
If a film was made in a western country titled “My Darling is a
Japanese” it would be viewed as nothing but flagrant racism.