2021 film directed by Feng-I Fiona Roan

Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.

Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events-- involving a bag of “jinxed” money, a suave American, a trunk full of heroin, a hustler taxi driver, and a rich doctor’s daughter-- that changes Robert’s life forever. Hunters in the Dark is a sophisticated game of cat and mouse redolent of the nightmares of Patricia Highsmith, where identities are blurred, greed trumps kindness, and karma is ruthless. Filled with Hitchcockian twists and turns, suffused with the steamy heat and pervasive superstition of the Cambodian jungle, and unafraid to confront difficult questions about the machinations of fate, this is a masterful novel that confirms Lawrence Osborne’s reputation as one of our finest contemporary writers.

From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east―and of the tour itself Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He took a six-month journey across the so-called Asian Highway―a swathe of Southeast Asia that, since the Victorian era, has seduced generations of tourists with its manufactured dreams of the exotic Orient. And like many a lost soul on this same route, he ended up in the harrowing forests of Papua, searching for a people who have never seen a tourist. What, Osborne asks, are millions of affluent itinerants looking for in these endless resorts, hotels, cosmetic-surgery packages, spas, spiritual retreats, sex clubs, and "back to nature" trips? What does tourism, the world's single largest business, have to sell? A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind, The Naked Tourist is the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author of The Accidental Connoisseur, praised by The New York Times Book Review as "smart, generous, perceptive, funny, sensible."

《闻所未闻》是阿梅丽•诺冬写日本的第三部具有强烈自传色彩的小说。第一部《管子的玄思》写的就是她幼年时期在日本的故事，第二部《诚惶诚恐》写的则是她长大后返回日本在某公司工作的遭遇，《闻所未闻》的故事也发生在这一时期。 作者通过一个日本男子和一个比利时女子的恋爱来反映东西方在人生观、道德观、价值观方面的差异，而种种有趣的故事和误会就从这种差异中生发出来，让人发笑，引人思考。在诺冬笔下，日本人总是那么滑稽可笑，有时甚至十分可恨。他们不拘言笑，等级分明，活得很认真，但也很累、很虚伪，所以，他们往往成为作者嘲讽的对象，爱情也不例外。在这部小说中，女主人公的爱情是认真的，她真心喜欢这个完美的日本“未婚夫”，但真的到了谈婚论嫁的时候，她又害怕了，逃之夭夭。对她来说，爱情是宝贵的，但更重要的是精神和行动的自由。 《闻所未闻》是阿梅丽•诺冬的第十六部小说，荣获法国“花神”文学奖。 该奖项由小说家和文学评论家弗雷德里克•贝格伯德于一九九四年创建，每年十一月在著名的“花神”咖啡馆由一批文学记者进行评选，专门奖励具有写作才能和前景的年轻作者。获奖者除赢得六千多欧元奖金外，还会在“花神”咖啡馆拥有一盏刻着自己姓名的酒杯，可在此享用一年卢瓦尔河谷出产的“波梅”白葡萄酒。

Amlie is a young language teacher living in Tokyo. When she succumbs to the attentions of a student--the shy, wealthy, and oh-so-Japanese Rinri--the lovers find themselves swept along by an affair that is as unusual as it is tender.

2019 documentary film by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

1991 film by Ang Lee

Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.

A 30-something Gundam fan and engineer is forced to live with his recluse brother Maury and younger sister Lisa to take care of their Japanese grandmother after their mother's funeral.