'Fukushima mon amour' is a short fiction rooted in contemporary Japan. Like the film to which it alludes, 'Hiroshima mon amour', it tells the story of a brief encounter between a Japanese man and a foreign woman in the context of a terrible human tragedy.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with Japanese women, in defiance of US military policy. Ordinarily, a by-the-book officer, Gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man, Joe Kelly, falls in love with a Japanese woman, Katsumi, and marries her. Gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony.

Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography.