The film “HAFU” is coming to Kumamoto on October 9th.
“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.”
The film is in English (or Japanese with English subtitles) so it will be accessible to all readers of this page.
It will be shown at the East Asian Citizen Co-existence Film Festival, which will be held on the campus of Kumamoto Gakuen University on the 9th and 10th of October. I’ll post more about that later.
Kirk