Japan in Paris in LA (1996)

Japan in Paris in LA centres on Saeki Yuzo an early twentiethcentury Japanese artist who makes a pilgrimage to Paris to seek his artistic fortunes only to find that ethnic and cultural differences stand in his way Around this narrative the Yonemotos construct a multilayered and selfreflexive work in which strategies of disjunction and contradiction are key Employing heightened theatricality experimental narrative strategies and archival footage the film proposes a complex meditation on issues of modernity representation ethnocentrism and identity