A Girl Named Tamiko

1962
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1h 50m

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A Eurasian photographer uses his women in an attempt to get American nationality.A Eurasian photographer uses his women in an attempt to get American nationality.A Eurasian photographer uses his women in an attempt to get American nationality.

Director
- John Sturges
Writers
- Edward Anhalt
- Ronald Kirkbride
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5.7/10

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Director
- John Sturges
Writers
- Edward Anhalt
- Ronald Kirkbride
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Martha Hyer says in her biography that playing love with Lawrence Harvey needed a good stomach. According to her, he was a real life the same misfit he was in most of the films he played.

Quotes
Nigel Costairs: Well, you've got to start somewhere.
Ivan Kalin: At the top! I'm not a kid anymore. And America's the place to do it in. There's only one thing I need.
Nigel Costairs: I can let you have a little money.
Ivan Kalin: Thanks. But I can get money if I can get a reputation. And that's what I have to leave with, if I expect to be anything in America.
Nigel Costairs: There's a desperation about all this. It isn't like you.
Ivan Kalin: You're an Englishman. Sapporo's Japanese. I have no country. I've nothing.
Nigel Costairs: Those are just words, Ivan.
Ivan Kalin: Feelings. And very few people can understand what it's like to be born into this world through no fault of their own, and find yourself a displaced person. A citizen of the world. Without a passport and no place to go. A man, a man needs roots. He has to belong.
Nigel Costairs: Well, there really is a human being under there. What are you going to do?
Ivan Kalin: What I have to do. Anything. Anybody.

Connections
Referenced in Las salvajes en Puente San Gil (1966)

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7/10

Man torn between love and career in post war Japan

This film looks as if it could have come from a more interesting book or play. A Russian photographer is trapped in post-war Tokyo and embittered both by Japan's role in the horrors of the recent war and by its close knit society and the limitations it places on his career. He seeks US citizenship and the professional freedom he perceives that it offers. He becomes torn between an American woman with very idiosyncratic social circumstances but who can offer him transit to the US and a comparatively westernised upper class Japanese girl. The portrayal of the sleazier side of Tokyo life, and especially expatriate life, of the time is interesting and probably representative. For the time it was made this is a particularly "adult" film. Worth a look.