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Bookmark this pageSwimming with Tears (1992)
Director: Hirotaka Tashiro
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Tashiro's debut feature is a weird mix of breast-beating, social concern, museum-piece melodramatics and coolly detached style. It's one of the many contemporary movies to focus on Asian immigrants to Japan: in this case, a Filipina mail-order bride who gives up on her Japanese peasant husband and flees to Tokyo in search of her Japanese father. There are a couple of interesting plot strands (the best concerns a kindly but odd Japanese couple with a guilty secret in their closet), but the film founders on the sheer sentimentality of its view of Asians in Japan. Pity: if it had an ounce of cynicism to it, comparisons with Fassbinder might have been in order.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Hirotaka Tashiro
Producer: Syuijiro Kawakami
Cast: Ruby Moleno, Shiro Sano, Jun Togawa full cast
Duration: 104 mins
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