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Misrepresentation of Japanese culture

 
 
Reply Sun 18 Jun, 2017 11:03 am
Hello, can you suggest me some American films which misrepresent Japanese culture? I've managed to found "Lost In Translation" and "Sayonara" but I don't know if the second one is a good example. I have to write an essay based on the films which wrongly represent Japan but I'm not really interested in Japanese culture so I don't know which films may be appropriate.

Thank you for your help :-)
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seac
 
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Reply Sun 18 Jun, 2017 04:01 pm
@cloud254,
Lost in Translation and Sayonara seems to represent Japanese culture correctly, judging from all the little things going on around the main actors. I have a problem with Kill Bill though.
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jespah
 
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Reply Sun 18 Jun, 2017 07:33 pm
@cloud254,
Might or might not be misrepresentation of culture (I just know of this film; I haven't seen it), but Dragon Seed is a prime example of whitewashing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Seed_(film)
ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Sun 18 Jun, 2017 09:08 pm
@jespah,
I'm not a gamer, and didn't get the word whitewashing, but if it means what I'm guessing, I'd likely not like the games much.... but then I wouldn't anyway.

I've not kept a list of the japanese movies I've seen over the years, but I'd guess somewhere around twenty, maybe more, mostly at the old Fox Venice theater (how I miss it). I'm sure those were not "misrepresentations" as such.
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Mon 19 Jun, 2017 06:23 pm
@cloud254,
Black Rain (1989)

Rising Sun (1993) is the adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel that gets a lot of flack about how it depicts Japan and Japanese culture.
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