"Picture Bride" was a great film choice to juxtapose with Takaki. Takaki tended to gloss a little over the negativity of the Japanese picture brides--if only because their fate was relatively painless, in comparison to their Chinese prostitute counterparts.
However, as sympathetic as I feel towards Riyo, I can't help but get annoyed with her as well--at the beginning of the movie, especially. Then again, I suppose Riyo would have been an oddity: a city girl going over to work in the fields of Hawaii.
Additionally, the awkwardness/hatred Riyo feels for her new husband seems a bit unwarranted. Sure, he lied about his picture, but he seems to be trying his hardest to make her feel comfortable. She doesn't give him
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