The Soba Man

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A Japanese folktale of the Soba Man and a demon without a face blends into the present when Mirico attends a party for her white boyfriend. Japanese-American Mirico is made into an object of fascination to Dom's white friends at a party, unsettling her. She meets Chuck, the host of the party and learns that she resembles a past lover. Mirico shares eerie similarities with the lover and the girl in The Soba Man folktale.

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1963

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Donald Wrye

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Mirico

Dom

Anne

Chuck

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