{"id":62382,"date":"2021-11-26T20:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T20:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62382"},"modified":"2021-11-26T20:38:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T20:38:50","slug":"new-film-whole-looks-at-daily-struggles-of-mixed-race-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62382","title":{"rendered":"New Film \u201cWhole\u201d Looks at Daily Struggles of Mixed-Race Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/japan-topics\/c030148\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>New Film \u201cWhole\u201d Looks at Daily Struggles of Mixed-Race Japanese<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nippon.com: Your Doorway to Japan<\/a><br \/>\n2021-11-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/authordata\/matsumoto-takuya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Matsumoto Takuya<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/japan-topics\/c030148\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 80%; border: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/ncommon\/contents\/japan-topics\/1303392\/1303392.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the population of mixed-race Japanese\u2014popularly called h\u0101fu\u2014grows, entertainers and athletes with bicultural backgrounds are increasingly prominent. However, most of those considered h\u0101fu in Japan live normal, private lives, struggling daily with curiosity, prejudice, and their own identity conflicts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whole-movie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Whole<\/em><\/a>, a new short film, takes up the issues facing just such people through the story of two young men. We spoke with the director, writer, and leading actor about the film&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/japan-topics\/c030148\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the population of mixed-race Japanese\u2014popularly called h\u0101fu\u2014grows, entertainers and athletes with bicultural backgrounds are increasingly prominent. However, most of those considered h\u0101fu in Japan live normal, private lives, struggling daily with curiosity, prejudice, and their own identity conflicts. Whole, a new short film, takes up the issues facing just such people through the story of two young men. We spoke with the director, writer, and leading actor about the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,13743,8],"tags":[1793,32480,32482,32484,19867,32483,32481],"class_list":["post-62382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-interviews","category-media-archive","tag-japan","tag-kawazoe-bilal","tag-kawazoe-usman","tag-matsumoto-takuya","tag-nippon-com","tag-nippon-com-your-doorway-to-japan","tag-sandy-kai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62383,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62382\/revisions\/62383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}