A Eurasian photographer uses his women in an attempt to get American nationality.
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Title: A Girl Named Tamiko (1962)
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Laurence Harvey | ... | Ivan Kalin | |
| France Nuyen | ... | Tamiko | |
| Martha Hyer | ... | Fay Wilson | |
| Gary Merrill | ... | Max Wilson | |
| Michael Wilding | ... | Nigel Costairs | |
| Miyoshi Umeki | ... | Eiko | |
| Steve Brodie | ... | James Hatten | |
| Lee Patrick | ... | Mary Hatten | |
| David Lewis | ... | Minor Role | |
| John Fujioka | ... | Minya (as John Mamo) | |
| Ray Teal | ... | Kyle Munce | |
| Richard Loo | ... | Otani | |
| Philip Ahn | ... | Akiba | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Laurence Harvey plays a Eurasian photographer who is trapped in Japan, but who wants to emigrate to the United States. His visa is continually delayed, which causes him to use his charm with women to pull some strings and apply some pressure on the embassy. His romantic magnetism works on a thrill-seeking American and an aristocratic Japanese woman. Written by Anonymous
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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 ...
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John Sturges intended to show in this movie women playing some kind of male characters. See more »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 ...
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25 January 1963 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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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.