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2010s · Japan · documentary

Hafu (2013)

Director not on record · 1 h 30 min

Year
2013
Running time
1 h 30 min
Countries
Japan
Languages
Japanese and English

About the film

Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan is a 2013 Japanese documentary film that explores the intricacies of mixed-race, ethnically half Japanese people called hāfu and their multicultural experiences in modern Japan. The film featured hāfu people share their experiences. Such as those who've lived their whole life in Japan.

Or those who arrived later in life and others are in between. The contrast between Japanese and other cultures can be akin to two different worlds. It sheds light on what it is like to be multiracial and multicultural in a homogeneous Japan.

It seeks to answer the question what does it mean to be hāfu? What does it mean to be Japanese, and what does it mean for Japan?

From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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