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A Japanese couple obsessed with 1950s America goes to Memphis because the male half of the couple 
emulates Carl Perkins. 



Chance encounters link three different stories in the city, with the common thread 
being the seedy hotel where they are all staying.

  This film rated SG -- for super genki, y'all!



Mystery Train is a 1989 independent anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee, 
in the U.S. The film is a  triptych of stories involving foreign protagonists unfolding over the course of the same night. 
"Far from Yokohama" features a Japanese couple (Youki Kudoh and Masatoshi Nagase) on a blues pilgrimage, "A Ghost" 
focuses on an Italian widow (Nicoletta Braschi) stranded in the city overnight, and "Lost in Space" follows the misadventures 
of a newly single and unemployed Englishman (Joe Strummer) and his companions (Rick Aviles and Steve Buscemi). They 
are linked by a run-down flophouse overseen by a night clerk (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and his disheveled bellboy (Cinqué Lee), 
a scene featuring Elvis Presley's "Blue Moon", and a gunshot.


What I like about the Japanese kids in Memphis is, if you think about tourists visiting Italy, the way the Romantic poets 
went to Italy to visit the remnants of a past culture, and then if you imagine America in the future, when people from 
the East or wherever visit our culture after the decline of the American empire – which is certainly in progress – all they'll 
really have to visit will be the homes of rock 'n' roll stars and movie stars. That's all our culture ultimately represents. So 
going to Memphis is a kind of pilgrimage to the birthplace of a certain part of our culture.
—Jim Jarmusch, Interview, November 1989

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Train_(film)