Random gaijin in the movies

[Mr Doricar]

Ok, been watching too many J-Films lately and have not seen a single FG walking in the streets, or playing a bad guy or anything. How about you guys? Where have you seen FG's in the movies?

[halfnip]

Ok, been watching too many J-Films lately and have not seen a single FG walking in the streets, or playing a bad guy or anything. How about you guys? Where have you seen FG's in the movies?

Tough one. But how about switching it up to FOB's in foreign films. I'll take Matsuda Seiko in Armageddon and that fugly chick that went all out in Babel.

[amdg]

There was that "Spy Sorge" flick that had a few main cast foriegn members.

And also there was that movie, forget the name, sorry!, about the Salaryman who had to learn English for a job assignment and his family pitched in to help him learn and, in the end, all he learnt was how horrible foreigners are - greedy lechers all. There were a few foreigners in there whenever the main guy had to interract with them. A REAL, in your face, nihonjinron movie tradji-comedy. Does anyone recall the name of that one?

[amdg]

[amdg]

Granted, both of those flicks really required foreigners in them due to the subject matter. But J-movies that have random foreigners for no real reason, or just for some background flavor? Hmm, that’s a head-scratcher.

The awesome Dreamcast game “Shenmue” though had quite a few foreigners in it who were story-line characters. Tom the hotdog vendor (who turned out to be a traitor, if I recall), the sleezy tattoo artist in the 2nd floor apaato (who tries to kill you), and the kindly old Chinese woman, to name a few.

[Kuang_Grade]

While certainly not recent, Black tight killers/Ore ni sawaru to abunaize comes to mind...althought the gaijin aren't really random, they the big bosses that are pulling the strings behind the scenes.

[Captain Japan]

While certainly not recent, Black tight killers/Ore ni sawaru to abunaize comes to mind...althought the gaijin aren't really random, they the big bosses that are pulling the strings behind the scenes.

That's the first one I thought of as well. The FG in that is a classic! "Pistol Opera," the 2001 Suzuki Seijun flick, has one FG in it playing Dr. Painless. In spite of the review linked previously, the movie is a real dud.
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[Ptyx]

There's a female gaijin in Miike's Midnight Theater Gozu. It's a really short part. The hero talk with her in japanese and then realizes that she's reading her lines in romaji script written on a wall behind him.
It's Miike so it doesn't make much sense.
I also remember an Ozu flick where an old guy is concerned because his daughter has fallen in love with an american G.I and wants to marry him. The american guy was portrayed as a nice guy who spoke a little bit of japanese.

[American Oyaji]

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
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Sex & Fury

[Iraira]

There's the movie "Brother", with Omar Epps and Beat Takeshi. Semi decent on the violence and a few decent one liners. Omar really doesn't say much in J, tho'.

[sublight]

Blister is a Japanese film with two parallel storylines: one among otaku in modern-day Japan, the other centuries later in the post-apocalypse future, in which all the characters are very f'd gaijins.

Not a great movie, but kinda fun.


Hiroyuki Nakano's Akakage is a samurai-era ninja movie with a Russian gymnast thrown in for reasons that are never fully explained.

[Sarutaro]

The Truth about Nanking will have a decent number of FGs in it when it is released, including yours truly.

[Mulboyne]

There are quite a few gaijin extras and bit-part players dotted about the place. Samurai movies use them as Jesuit priests, Dutch traders and Portuguese missionaries. You get some ambassadors in films set in the Meiji Era. Post-war films will often have a drunk or sex-obssessed GI lurking around. Chico Roland popped up in a few Nikkatsu flicks in the sixties, most notably as a pastor in Seijun Suzuki's Gates of Flesh. More recent films use foreigners as hostesses, visiting businessmen, politicians, sportsmen and teachers. They usually give a Japanese character the chance to show that they can speak English.

Of course, this is just westerners. Asian's pop up a lot too. Miike features a lot of different nationalities in City Of Lost Souls:

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