Hafu (2013 Producer/Director/Videographer Megumi Nishikura) With an ever increasing movement of people between places in this transnational age, there is a mounting number of mixed-race people in Japan, some visible others not. “Hafu” is the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experience in modern day Japan. The film follows the lives of five “hafus”–the Japanese term for people who are half-Japanese–as they explore what it means to be multiracial and multicultural in a nation that once proudly proclaimed itself as the mono-ethnic nation. Each quarter during the academic year the UW Japan Studies Program will host a film to include discussion.
Tentative films:
WQ23: Ainu the Indigenous People of Japan (Ainu ひと）(2019 Producer/Director/Camera/Editor: Naomi Mizoguchi)
SQ23: Yakiniku Dragon (焼肉ドラゴン) (2018 Writer/Director Wui-Sin Chong) |