"Those names, they're Chinese actors, right? I don't know if the theatres at home would be showing films from China..." Don't make him explain the state of international politics as it relates to Taisho-era Japan, he'll need much more than one sake to lead up to that and he still wouldn't know where to start. But that does remind him, belatedly, that what he thinks of as 'the present day' might not sync up to... "I'm from 1922."
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"Those names, they're Chinese actors, right? I don't know if the theatres at home would be showing films from China..." Don't make him explain the state of international politics as it relates to Taisho-era Japan, he'll need much more than one sake to lead up to that and he still wouldn't know where to start. But that does remind him, belatedly, that what he thinks of as 'the present day' might not sync up to... "I'm from 1922."