Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

Name: L'ennemi japonais à Hollywood
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-05-05
Duration: 54 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Dan Akira, Joseph McBride, Tamlyn Tomita

Original title: L'ennemi japonais à Hollywood

20192019
54m

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5.7/10

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Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood (2019)

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A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

166

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Directors
- Clara Kuperberg
- Julia Kuperberg
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- Clara Kuperberg
- Julia Kuperberg
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8/10

The truth can be hard to hear for those that want to deny it

I am not Asian but I have read too many books backing up what the movies claims. I have also seen to many Asian interviews recounting the same things. Although the focus is on Hollywood and America, other countries have had their faults as well when in comes to racism but that is no excuse for denying the truth and the reasons for what happened.

If there is a fault with the documentary with less than an hour it was rushed. More details could have been added about the injustices that took place during the 1920s to 1930 to the point where even killing someone from China or Japan who was not a citizen could be ignored. Did I fail to mention how hard it would be to even become a citizen?

World War 2 only made things much worst. Watch the documentary, simple as that.

I would love to read the opinions of our Asian-American contributors.

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