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  Ichigensan (1999)

a.k.a The New Comer
The First Timers

A Swiss student is studying Japanese literature in Kyoto, Japan. He is always being mistaken for an American and someone who doesn't speak Japanese. To assist with his studies he takes on the job of reader to a blind woman called Kyoko who has been blind since a child. They fall in love.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248099/

http://www.culturevulture.net/Movies/Ichigensan.htm who praises the film highly.




 


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