East is East

Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly

Love, Hiro Tanaka impetuously jumps ship off the coast of Georgia - only

to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of

black slaves, and a colony of crazed artists. Terrifying one islander -

literally - to death, and fleeing not only from the Immigration Agents

but also an elderly lady convinced he is Seiji Ozawa, Tanaka is

unwittingly caught up in a hilarious and irretievably complicated

spider's web of misunderstandings. His sole refuge on the island, the

manipulative and ambiguous novelist Ruth Dershowitz, only draws him in

ever deeper...