Misc: what country forms a 2,000-mile archipelago along the east coast of asia?

Questions

Man and woman dance in a laundromat and throw clothes at each other?

Woman lounges in tub as bubbles fill the screen?

Bill French, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, Richard Thompson?

Bob Dylan, Prince, Bob Mould?

Charlie Rouse, John Coltrane (not the instrument!)?