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kurogane wrote:Yeah, there was a fair bit of grumbling about the obvious and rather inaccurate cultural appropriation and more than a few Japanese immigrants have been whining about the internments as though they were there, completely overlooking the irony that the Japanese themselves often interned NA Jpn caught in Japan when the war broke out. The local Jpn-Cdns get rather miffed when the new ones do that, but they seem to keep it in house. Which is fine with me.
dimwit wrote:Never saw the movie. I did see the NFB film about the same subject and it was well done. I try to avoid Japanese movies about the internment, because they usually miss the point by a mile, and I always have the suspicion that the people backing such projects are the kind of people who also believe Nanking was a hoax.
Ishii himself confessed to a Vancouver newspaper that both Japantown and the Asahi team were unknown to him before he began the project.
Also, the film’s pronounced us-versus-them narrative, with both the team and the Japantown residents continually confronting raw prejudice while living in a Japanese linguistic and cultural bubble, repetitiously simplifies the messy process of assimilation that so many immigrants underwent in that era.
The result is an exercise in soft nationalism targeted at the home market, despite its international veneer. The aim, as was the case with “The Great Passage,” is to make the local audience proud to be Japanese — as well as thankful they don’t have to endure the same harsh treatment from a non-Japanese majority as the film’s much-put-upon heroes.
dimwit wrote:By the way, in the movie did they get the Canadian flag right? That is always the dealbreaker for me as it is indicative of lazy research.
chokonen888 wrote:dimwit wrote:dimwit wrote:By the way, in the movie did they get the Canadian flag right? That is always the dealbreaker for me as it is indicative of lazy research.
I don't even remember if they showed a single flag in the movie...
kurogane wrote:Anyways, yeah, other than the appropriation of an issue and a tragedy they had nothing to do with
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