In 2020, anti-Asian hate crimes jumped +1900% in the US due to Covid-19. Are western films partially responsible for misrepresentation of Asians? In ep #4 of Portraits of Cinema, we examine Edward Said's orientalist implications in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003), compare the film to Brittany Murphy's Ramen Girl (2008), and think about how we should progress Asian representation in global cinema in the decade to come.

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▶ Lost in Translation (dir. Sofia Coppola, 2003), starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, and Anna Faris. American Zoetrope
Elemental Films
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▶ Ramen Girl ラーメンガール (dir. Robert Allan Ackerman, screenwriter. Becca Topol, 2008). Starring Brittany Murphy, Sohee Park, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tammy Blanchard, Kimiko Yo, Renji Ishibashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masayoshi Haneda, Gabriel Mann). Media 8 Entertainment
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SOURCES & FURTHER READINGS:
▶ https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...
▶ https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-commu...
▶ https://www.architecturaldigest.com/s...
▶ https://monocle.com/film/design/q-and...
▶ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/...
▶ https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/mo...
▶ https://nihaositgoing.com/2017/02/09/...
▶ https://screen-queens.com/2020/11/24/...
▶ https://filmquarterly.org/2005/09/01/...
▶ https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
▶ https://www.reuters.com/article/japan...
▶ Hong Kong footage:    • Magic of Hong Kong. Mind-blowing cybe...  
▶ Lost in Japan, Shawn Mendes (2018)
▶ 2 Broke Girls, Parasite, Tampopo, Transformers 4, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Barbarian and the Geisha, Memoirs of the Geisha, Her, Skyfall, A Sun, Happy Old Year, Minari, Better Days, #alive, Susi Susanti: Love All, Chhalaang