Quote:
Hirotaka Tashiro’s remarkably assured first feature focuses on a long ignored problem: the plight of the foreign worker in Japan. In the sparsely populated rural areas of Japan, the female population is far smaller than the male. An attempt is made to counter this imbalance by arranging marriages with Filipino women. Fey, a young Filipina, came as a mail-order bride. Although she tries hard, she cannot get on with her husband, either verbally or emotionally. After a year, she flees her snow-country husband with only the clothes on her back and sets out in search of work in Toyko. She wanders through Toyko asking for help in churches and at the Philippine Embassy. She needs to find work to earn enough money for a flight home. She finally finds a job and a place to stay with a Chinese man who is sympathetic to her situation. He introduces her to two of his Japanese neighbors who, when they hear Fey’s life story, immediately decide to help her find her Japanese father whom she has never met. Befriended by some, cheated and abused by many others, she soon realizes the bitter truth that there is really no place for her in this society. Newcomer Ruby Moleno gives an outstanding performance in a taut, revealing work that carefully avoids easy answers to a complex social reality. [SFFS.org]

Swimming With Tears.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 43mn
Size: 	1.34 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	704x340 ~> 704x380
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	1 650 Kbps
BPP: 	0.288
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/78368B6B4948E9D/Swimming_With_Tears.mkv

Language(s):Filipino, Tagalog, Japanese
Subtitles:English

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