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>PaPY >LX`]LT (1956, Classic). One of Japan’s most famous movies tells the story of seven
heroes hired by farmers to defend their village against bandits. If the plot sounds a bit like a
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up ballroom dancing by a chance glimpse of a beautiful woman. But what will his wife and
coworkers think? An American remake was released in 2004.
>SZR`Y (1980, Period Drama) A popular TV miniseries that was shot entirely in Japan, it
follows the drama of an English navigator shipwrecked in feudal Japan.

/P[L]_`]P^ (2008, Drama) An Academy Award winning Japanese drama follows the story of a
failed cellist who takes a job as a mortician.

Vietnam

Apocalypse Now (1979, Drama) Set in the midst of the Vietnam War, this intense drama follows
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Conrad’s book, Heart of Darkness.

2ZZO 8Z]YTYR ATP_YLX (1987, Comedy) While the irreverent humor of Armed Forces Radio
Service host Adrian Cronauer (Williams) amuses the troops stuck in Vietnam, he clashes with
the Army brass who try to censor his show.

Indochine (1992, Foreign) When a well-to-do French plantation owner and her adopted
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burgeoning nationalist movement. Set in French Indochina of the 1930s; in French with
subtitles.

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widely understood to be a comment on the Vietnam War. The darkly comedic tone of the
movie was so popular that it was developed into a long-running TV series, M*A*S*H.

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desire and romantic intrigue: Although initially attracted to a tough and brassy beauty
(Harlow) plantation foreman Gable soon falls instead for the classy wife of an employee
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and the challenges of a remote jungle plantation (monsoons and malaria, just to name two).

The Quiet American (1958, Classic) A love triangle between a British journalist, a young
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remake starring Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser puts more emphasis on the intrigue and
seedy side of Saigon in the 1950s, but is also quite good.

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