Asian Woman, White Man Romantic Movies
Favorite Asian Women/White Men Romances
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- DirectorJoshua LoganStarsMarlon BrandoRicardo MontalbanPatricia OwensA US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.So romantic! Starting Marlon Brando and Miiko Tada!
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsDennis QuaidTamlyn TomitaSab ShimonoThe passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.Another favorite. Starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita. Romance among the Japanese Internment of WWII
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsJohn WayneEiko AndoSam JaffeIn 1856, the first U.S. Consul General to Japan encounters the hostility of the local authorities and the love of a young geisha.Historic romance starring John Wayne and Eiko Ando!
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsWilliam HoldenNancy KwanSylvia SymsA businessman moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist and falls in love with a prostitute he hires as a model.Romance in Hong Kong, starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan!
- DirectorScott HicksStarsEthan HawkeMax von SydowYûki KudôA Japanese-American fisherman is accused of killing his neighbor at sea. In the 1950s, race figures into the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.Starring Ethan Hawke and Youki Kudoh. Lovers Ishmael and Hatsue are separated among the Japanese Internment of WWII, and reunite years later, when Hatsue's husband Kabuo, is charged with murder.
- DirectorRégis WargnierStarsCatherine DeneuveVincent PerezLinh-Dan PhamEliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.Young Vietnamese girl Camille(Linh Dan Pham) falls in love with her adoptive Mother Eliane's French Naval Officer lover Jean-Baptiste(Vincent Perez), in Colonial Vietnam.
- DirectorWayne WangStarsJeremy IronsGong LiMaggie CheungThe story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.In the final days of British rule in Hong Kong, terminally ill English Journalist John (Jeremy Irons), has a brief romance with the Chinese Vivian(Gong Li).
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsMichael CaineBrendan FraserDo Thi Hai YenAn old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.
- DirectorJon AvnetStarsRichard GereBai LingBradley WhitfordAn American attorney on business in China is wrongfully arrested and put on trial for murder, with a female defense lawyer from the country the only key to proving his innocence.Richard Gere and Bai Ling star in this thriller about a businessman wrongfully accused of murder in China!
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsMichael PittKeira KnightleyKoji YakushoThe story of a married silkworm merchant-turned-smuggler in 19th century France traveling to Japan for his town's supply of silkworms after a disease wipes out their African supply. During his stay in Japan, he becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.A Married French Merchant/Smuggler (Michael Pittman), in 19th-Century France becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron(Sei Ashina), while traveling in Japan.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeremy IronsJohn LoneBarbara SukowaIn 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.A Chinese singer, isn't all that she seems to be!
- DirectorJean-Pierre PonnelleStarsMirella FreniPlácido DomingoChrista LudwigA young Japanese geisha clings to the belief that her arrangement with a visiting American naval officer is a loving and permanent marriage.Best Opera ever! :)