L'ennemi japonais à Hollywood

I am not Asian but I have read too many books backing up what the movies claims. I have also seen too 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.

The documentary's research was incredibly shallow, with no focus. Many, many films not even discussed here at the expense of some high-school history lesson. The documentary wanders off the main topic of Hollywood's treatment of Asians. The commentary by Nancy Wang Yuen and Joseph McBride is cursory, and Yuen's comments are totally inaccurate. She's more interested in making sound bites than a real analysis.

The historical perspective is also sloppy, especially the discussion of the Production Code and its issue of miscegenation. That only applied to Black/White relations, but for some reason Yuen says it includes Asian/White relations which it does not. Looks like she twists the "facts" to support her own agenda. The documentary closes with Alan Parker's Come See the Paradise in 1990 perhaps because Japanese actress Tamlyn Tomita was available.

Overall, a mess. Look elsewhere.

Too much reliance on the same three talking heads but generous use of film clips and historical footage somewhat alleviates the problem. GGive it a B minus.

Always knew about Rooney and Brando (to mention nothing of Muni And Rainer) resorting to the noxious title practice. But it was embarrassing to see one of the five greatest female actors of American film and a supposed champion of liberal, values, Katherine Hepburn, stooping so low. And that Scarlett Johansson was still doing it as of 2017 and is unrepentant about it is downright disgusting. Let's boycott her films. Whadya say?

PS...And as long as I'm making suggestions I will gladly donate my backyard as the venue for a beer and/or sake summit between Joseph McBride and previous reviewer UNOhwen. Sounds like they have much to discuss.

Nothing is more satisfying to a child than to correct an error by the one who says, "Brush your teeth" or "Finish your spinach," by pointing out that the capital of Illinois is Springfield, not Chicago. Now that we live in "a national household," it is time for left-liberals to point out that the USA did not live up to its founding principles for everyone at all times. They cannot say that the differences between peoples are so negligible that Orson Welles as Othello or Gale Sondergaard as Mrs. Hammond or Akim Tamiroff as Gen. Yang is as inoffensive as the characterization of Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi is odious, so much so that both the actor and director apologized. To throw another log on the fire, we are reminded of the unjust incarceration of Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor, irrelevant to a film about the occasional casting of European-American actors in Asian roles. Hopefully, a day will come when left-liberals can recognize our many similarities rather than harp on our petty differences.

Watched this hour-long documentary via TCM and found it interesting as well as lacking. Some of the movies I was familiar with (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and others I was not (The Crimson Kimono, Sayonara, et al.), but the film veered off into an odd direction midway through to discuss the camps for the Japanese during WW2 but failed to talk to George Takei, who was actually sent to one of these camps as a small child and has been in various productions about this very topic.

I think the topic is extremely important and deserves to be tackled a bit more in-depth than this film allowed. Great to hear from Tamlyn Tomita, but there are sooo many more we could've heard from (Nancy Kwan, James Hong, etc.). Also it seems like the movie was essentially only about Japanese racism since hardly any other Asian races were featured or even mentioned.

Important topic but this was a half-hearted attempt. D.