2.25 Stars. This was not a romantic love story about a couple working through cultural norms, beliefs and practices that challenge their resolve to be together. This was a story of Kane Takahashi, a successful Japanese restauranteur who seeks to honor his heritage and parents by dating and marrying a woman within his race. He has a long term on again-off again relationship with Akio, which is currently on; but sexually, Akio doesn't satisfy him. Kelly Boothe a Black American female lingerie super model is the heroine; but she and Kane have no romantic chemistry. Kelly is pretentious, darling this and that like Tula Bankhead or Bette Davis, she is pushy, disrespectful, bratty and dismissive. She meets Kane a gathering, decides she wants him dismisses his traditions and his girlfriend as inconvenient obstacles to her desire to have him. She uses her body and sex as lures that she gives and takes away. She is an unlikeable character. Kane is not blameless because he allows her to lead him around by his gentiles. They get the "HEA" but they did not meld as a loving couple.