Season 2, Ep. 6: Living On Tokyo Time (with Goh Nakamura)
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
TV & Film
Publication Date |
Mar 18, 2017
Episode Duration |
00:09:41
You may know Steven Okazaki as an Academy Award-winning documentarian who's made very serious films about Japanese atomic bomb survivors (White Light/Black Rain, The Mushroom Club) or the Japanese American internment camps during WWII (Unfinished Business, Days of Waiting). But in the late 1970s, he was also part of a San Francisco punk-rock music group called The Maids, and in 1987, he made a wacky romantic comedy called Living On Tokyo Time. It's about a Japanese woman who comes to America and wants to stay, so her friend introduces her to a Japanese American musician she can marry just so she can get a green card. Then they sort of start to like each other. Musician Goh Nakamura, our guest from last episode, is back to talk about how this is probably the first Asian American film he ever saw, and thanks to filmmaker David Chien for lending Brian and Ada the VHS, because it's not available to watch in any other format -- yet! Saturday School is a podcast where we teach your unwilling children about Asian American pop culture history. Season 2 explores Asian American romance in film.

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