H-JAPAN (E): representations of blacknesS, Japanese & Korean Cinema

[Brian Ruh]

Just saw this review of the film "Minami no Shima no Furimun":
http://metropolis.co.jp/movies/eiga/minami-no-shima-no-furimun/

The film is set in Okinawa, and according to the review, "Worse than this highly unoriginal plot is the fact that all the (mainly black) GIs are violent, arrogant and abusive. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say the portrayal is outright racist."

Also, last week I sent an email to the list about "Hotel Hibiscus," another film set in Okinawa, but I never saw it come through. Here's what I wrote (apologies if it did make it through for others and you're seeing this for the second time): 
Nakae Yuji's "Hotel Hibiscus" focuses on a family on Okinawa. The children in the family don't all have the same father (but they do have the same mother) -- one of them has an African-American father while another has a white American father. It's been a while since I've seen the film, but I don't think much is made of this except to note it in passing. Which could be noteworthy in itself.

== Brian