My Darling Is A Film Star

[Mulboyne]

A film version of the Darling wa Gaikokujin manga series is now under way. Jonathan Sherr is playing Tony while Mao Inoue is taking the part of his wife, Saori. The producer, Kazuya Hamana, thinks it is a heart warming story for troubled times. It should be hitting cinemas around Japan next spring.

[sublight]

Any word of a TV series? For some reason, the two seem to go hand-in-hand here (though not always with the same cast).

[Taro Toporific]

[floatl][/floatl]For a moment I was thinking, "Damn, Tony is looking good."
[color="DimGray"](Most of the time Tony scares the Japanese, especially the girls.)[/color]

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[Takechanpoo]

This gaijin dude is known to be in close contact with PeaceBoat and the other North Korean dummy organizations. Or he might be a agent of NK.

[sublight]

This gaijin dude is known to be in close contact with PeaceBoat and the other North Korean dummy organizations. Or he might be a agent of NK.

Shut up, Debito.

[Taro Toporific]

This gaijin dude is known to be in close contact with PeaceBoat and the other North Korean dummy organizations. Or he might be a agent of NK.

I never get a straight answer for Japanese people when I ask them what the rest-of-the-story is about the PeaceBoat.

The Japanese organizers and long-time participants of the PeaceBoat sure put off a mega-kimoi/creepy vibe (the young, first-timer, students who participate seem completely normal). Even as a hard-core hippy pinko, I deeply mistrust the ulterior motives the PeaceBoat seem to have.

[Mulboyne]

Film website

[Samurai_Jerk]

The Japanese organizers and long-time participants of the PeaceBoat sure put off a mega-kimoi/creepy vibe

I forgot the name of their posterboy journalist who died a couple of years ago. I drank with him at a long-since-closed strange little bar I used to frequent in Warabi. I know exactly what you mean. I couldn't put my finger on it but something was definitely weird about him and because of that I always felt like there must be something wrong with Peace Boat.

[Catoneinutica]

I forgot the name of their posterboy journalist who died a couple of years ago. I drank with him at a long-since-closed strange little bar I used to frequent in Warabi. I know exactly what you mean. I couldn't put my finger on it but something was definitely weird about him and because of that I always felt like there must be something wrong with Peace Boat.

Actually...speaking of Debito, I posted this before, he went on a Peaceboat excursion. You can find his essay if you root around his site. It sounds like a real Voyage of the Damned.

As for My Darling, hopefully there'll be a sequel where she divorces his hirsuite ass and Der Toner into paroxysms of impotent rage, culminating in a murder-suicide.

-catone
-My Darling Two: Hunting Season

[Marked Trail]

Actually...speaking of Debito, I posted this before, he went on a Peaceboat excursion. You can find his essay if you root around his site. It sounds like a real Voyage of the Damned.

THE PEACE BOAT REPORTS
MARCH 5 TO APRIL 7, 2005-- www.debito.org
Various pull quotes, nothing very damning...

...sponsored by Mindan, a Zainichi Korean action group....After introducing herself as a coordinator on the Peace Boat, she said...

[Peace Boat] is a haven of bran-burger hairy-legged hemp-bag-toting Marxist Anarcho-Syndicalist hippies who take advantage of the sealed environment to engage in physical free-for-alls ...

[Catoneinutica]

THE PEACE BOAT REPORTS
MARCH 5 TO APRIL 7, 2005-- www.debito.org
Various pull quotes, nothing very damning...

Nothing very damning, just damned...as in, In Hell:

"The issue that garnered the most attention was, ironically, the need for PB Japanese passengers to comment on every non-Asian passenger's acumen with chopsticks. I have long since learned to pass it off as old folk just trying to be friendly, struggling for a topic to strike up a conversation with. But the non-Asians both in our classroom and on the boat in general really took offense--thinking it worth telling the audience to kindly knock it off. To them (and me as well, when I'm in a mood), it's like damning somebody with the faint praise of being able to eat like an adult, to raise a glass to one's lips without knocking one's teeth out, or to zip up one's fly with acuity."

OTOH, it does sound like there was a lot of pu-SAY on offer, though Debito, bless that phat phuck, is coy about whether he availed himself of any of it.

[jingai]

Marked trail, you took that quote out of context- Debito wasn't saying that.

"A couple held that the PB is a haven of bran-burger hairy-legged hemp-bag-toting Marxist Anarcho-Syndicalist hippies who take advantage of the sealed environment to engage in physical free-for-alls (okay, so I'm sexing the opinions up a little; dramatic license). The point is, rumors abound about what the PB is and is trying to accomplish."

The rest is a really interesting piece from Debito,thought- worth a read.

[Mulboyne]

Teaser trailer:

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[Taro Toporific]

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For some damn reason, that trailer won't play on on the FG, but it will play on the Youtube website itself.

Click to play on Youtube.
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[Mulboyne]

Thanks Taro. I found a version that does embed in case that other one disappears early:

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[Bucky]

[Taro Toporific]

[wuchan]

[TennoChinko]

I guess no love lost between the two according to this online review called the "DAVE AND TONY SHOW":

http://www.japanreview.net/review_arudou_and_lazlo.htm



Whether or not the film makes you hurl, it's highly likely that Lazlo's wife's book and film has probably done more to influence the hearts and minds of the Japanese public than David Adwinckle with his whiny activism. Combined with the fact that his Japanese wife and kids basically left him, Adwinckle must be secretly gutted by this whole situation. His nemesis, Tony Lazlo and his wife are now a social and commercial success.

[Bucky]

Comment on this movie from an acquaintance:

Just saw Darling wa Gaikokujin. What a flaming piece of poo!Do not waste your time with this movie.

[Taro Toporific]

Comment on this movie from an acquaintance:

Just saw Darling wa Gaikokujin. What a flaming piece of poo!Do not waste your time with this movie.

[FG Lurker]

Nothing like a few stereotypes to give one a laugh.

[IparryU]

Comment on this movie from an acquaintance:

i will trust your acquaintance on this one.

but with a girl that looks like an eigo whore and a guy that looks like a doosh being stared in a book/movie/anime/etc. i will pass.

but if it eases up the j-ppl to not look down on it I am cool.

does the FG speak japanese or is it the case where wify has to hold his hand everywhere and do all the speaking + translation for him in several cases?

[FG Lurker]

I showed this to my wife yesterday and she got a good chuckle out of it. She read the original manga when it came out but found it completely uninteresting. I guess being married to a barbarian for 13 years spoiled the plot.

Anyway, the barbarian picture posted by Taro lead to a discussion where she mentioned a few things I hadn't heard before. Apparently being married to a gaijin (and using a non-Japanese surname) leads to a lot of gaijin-like experiences. She regularly gets ask if she can speak Japanese or if she is "hafu". Once people know she's Japanese but married to a gaijin the questions start. "Can he use chopsticks?" "Does he like rice?" "What do you cook for him?" Other comments along the lines of, "Ah, he must help around the house so much!" are common too. (I do jack shit at home actually -- she had to leave instructions on how to use the washing machine when she was away for a couple of weeks last summer...)

The kicker though is the question she gets from middle-aged women... "Does he have a big dick?" So I asked her what she says when asked that... "I tell them yes! I'm honest!"

Just another dinner time conversation at the FGL household...

[BigInJapan]

Apparently being married to a gaijin (and using a non-Japanese surname) leads to a lot of gaijin-like experiences. She regularly gets ask if she can speak Japanese or if she is "hafu". Once people know she's Japanese but married to a gaijin the questions start. "Can he use chopsticks?" "Does he like rice?" "What do you cook for him?"
The kicker though is the question she gets from middle-aged women... "Does he have a big dick?" So I asked her what she says when asked that... "I tell them yes! I'm honest!"

My wife gets the chopsticks, rice, and natto (blech) questions, but she's never mentioned being queried about my anatomy (they apparently all make the stunning observation that I am tall and have long legs though, maybe they're inferring something, hmm ).
I do remember one gathering several years ago where an early 20's girl (probably a potential eigo whore) did say to my wife, "Yappari asoko wa chigau?". She didn't tell me what her response was, but I think she just brushed it off as the girl was one of her students (and a few sandwiches short of a picnic IIRC).

[Greji]

"....."Does he have a big dick?" So I asked her what she says when asked that... "I tell them yes! I'm honest!"....."

I told my wife to ask any such female inquisitors if they would like a personal demonstration....

[FG Lurker]

I told my wife to ask any such female inquisitors if they would like a personal demonstration....

You've never seemed particularly concerned about gender (or species!) before... Why the sudden limits?

[Greji]

You've never seemed particularly concerned about gender (or species!) before... Why the sudden limits?

Nowhere did I say in that posts that those requirements were etched in stone. I mean it is just kinda like a general category. Something to work from...