Collection of dramas/movies referencing anything German

Hi,

one of the things I am very interested in is how the world we are living in is constantly changing due to globalization, more specifically, how the different cultures are intermingling and mixing.

Something “Western" is of course most likely being associated and represented in dramas/movies in English, as it is the Lingua Franca, and America has a huge influence in Asia (e.g. Japan and South Korea). That’s why it’s so much more interesting for me to spot references to other countries and cultures, here in this thread Germany.

I just stumbled upon the "japanized" foreign word "Daneihon" derived from the German word "die Ernährung" in episode 49 of the asadora Manpuku . It was a pretty interesting scene from minute 2 onwards, as it explained the stages of assimilation to the Japanese language!

I'm looking forward to your sightings!

In A Forest of Wool and Steel a  concert piano gets tuned. In the dialogue the Japanese tuner speaks better German than the supposedly German pianist, though 

Are you looking for K-movies set in Germany as well?

 Popcxqueen:

Are you looking for K-movies set in Germany as well?

Yes, do you know of any?

The 2018 film Unfinished (also known as Departure and a few other names) was set and filmed in Berlin and based on a true story.

https://mydramalist.com/23848-in-the-line-of-fire

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

In ep 5 of Jimi ni Sugoi! Koetsu Garu Kono Etsuko a famous stylist going by the name Fräulein Tokiko has a guest role. Although this moniker is a German (nowadays outdated… long story) form of adress, all her international context of where she is coming from revolves around Italy, as do the other characters' actions in this episode’s plot. Maybe that’s just where she’s currently living (she speaks Italian), or maybe that's mixing up Europe's nationalities and cultures on the filmmakers side…

In Ep. 3 of Family: The Unbreakable Bond (2023) the actor Sang Hyuk (ML) is talking on the phone in  German. I was impressed by the length of his text, though with his pronunciation not so much,  to be honest - it was only intelligible with subtitles. In ep 4 the ML is even teaching his little  primary school aged daughter to say "Guten Abend"

Usokon

the 2FL is supposedly  able to speak 5 languages. Her german sounds native, apart from the grammar in the situation  where she should either have used first person plural or third person plural (instead of  2nd  person singular "Entschuldige  mich, bitte." as she was standing up and leaving ) because she was speaking in a business setting with at least two people at the table. well ok, just  one foreigner could have been German (finally a foreign actor cast in a role speaking  his mother  tongue) , though it then would be inconsiderate to speak in a language not  everyone understands