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The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Before there was Chinatown...there was Japantown!!!
What a film! A tender-hearted love story from Sam Fuller. It may look like a detective movie but it's just a cover to disguise a really well told and well acted tale about two cops who love the same woman. You'll see very real characters who feel real emotions - "Honest, dirty, jealousy," to paraphrase.
Wonderful use of JAPANtown, in downtown Los Angeles, and a good L.A. movie in general. Make note of this real interracial relationship movie from 1959. You gotta see it.
Chocolat (1988)
Not an easy film to understand
Chocolat opens as one thing and only when it's ended do you realize that it was something else. I was expecting a film about a woman and her conflict with her childhood. But this film is really the story of her mother. Beautiful, film, but tricky, and very French, contrary to it's financing. Highly recommended.