It was funny but also kind of sad the way they just totally disregarded their birth daughter who was quite beautiful all because they wanted to be so American. It was also hillariously ironic how she says "atomic power makes me proud to be Asian American." lol!! I wuuld like to know what their daughter was saying when she wasn't speaking English.
shareIt's Japanese, right? Because my bosses both speak fluent Japanese. I totally might bring my DVD into them and ask them to translate. If I find out, I will let you guys know!!
shareYeah, it was Japanese, cool, thanks!
shareI'm not fluent in Japanese but I took it in high school and if I heard her right the gist of it was that she was having issues with her homework and she felt stupid - I don't know what she said word for word and it's been so long since high school that I very well could be wrong (please don't flame me if I am - we all make mistakes) but I think that's what she was talking about.
shareThe response was brilliant. "SPEAK ENGLISH YOU STUPID LITTLE RETARD"
all the sky is is blue
all that blue is is one more colour now
a friend of mine who speaks japanese said that she said, something along the lines that she wanted to return home to Japan and that everybody puts butter on everything.
did you know? the japanese mother was the nurse or medical aide in Star Trek Next Generation?
She says
"Excuse me, Father, Mother, when are we
moving back to Tokyo? I can't stand
this place anymore. They put butter
on everything."
LOL! That's freakin' hilarious
sharethat makes sense with the line about the lutefisk
shareThe japanese call americans "The Butter People" because we smell like butter to them. Our diet makes us reek.
shareI must speak out in defense of the smell of butter.
I like the smell of butter and I bet you do too!
Buttered popcorn. Butter sizzling in the pan before you break some eggs. Butter on a newly baked loaf of bread.
Isn't there a men's eau de toilette called "Dzing" which uses butter as it's topnote?
And doesn't Barbra sing like "Buttah" according to "Coffee Talk"?
So how can savagesteve13 say that our diet makes us "reek"?
Can't you tell I'm from Wisconsin?
What Ever Happened to the Marlboro Man?
I'd rather smell like butter than fish.
shareHeh...she totally doesn't look like Nurse Ogawa, Dr. Crusher chief assistant, in this movie.
They were both hilarious in this movie, though.
oh god i love it when the guy stands at the back of the room wearing a cowboy hat say hey! whata he not got thata i not got?! he lookes so ammused!! so funny
shareI find it funny Seiko Matsuda plays such an insignificant role, in Japan her name is equal to Madonna's in the west. Arguably the biggest celebrity in Japanese history.
shareunfair , they chose the best jap girl they can find. and an average white girl. the scene is anti american .. mocking american wannabe japanese is still anti american.... however it's sorta realistic...
shareI love the way they're trying to assimilate to American culture and are going overboard on everything. Meanwhile, Molly is so desperate for a family, she's trying to assimilate to THEM, picking Emperor Hirohito as her ideal President, "What tree would you be?" "Bonsai," the nuclear explosion on her head during the opening number - she even calls herself a Asian-American!
It makes me wonder, too - what happened to her family, that she must have been 15 years old and was up for adoption?
Flat, drab passion meanders across the screen!
I have never heard of Japanese people thinking all Americans smell like butter, but I have heard Chinese people think all Americans smell like milk.
shareSo ironic then, that in real-life the actress is Japanese-American and the actor is Korean-American, not the kind of people who frequently fall in love with each other.
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