Please see details of an event organised by the Kobe Migration Research Center (KoMiReC) on Friday, 31 May. All welcome, no registration necessary!

"Hafu" film screening and discussion event (Next Generation series) 

Venue: Kobe University Tsurukabuto 1st Campus 神戸大学 鶴甲第1キャンパス
(⼤会議室 - Main Meeting Room E401)
Guest speakers: EDWARD SUMOTO (One of the protagonists starring in the film) and DUNIA OKAMURA (Former president of Ashiya International Secondary School's international PTA)

ABOUT THE FILM

(Japanese follows English)

Language: Japanese with Eng. Subs
Length: 1h24 min
Directors: Megumi Nishikura & Lara Perez Takagi

SYNOPSIS

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. For some of these hafus Japan is the only home they know, for some living in Japan is an entirely new experience, and others are caught somewhere between two different worlds.

概要

⼈々が頻繁に世界中を移動する時代となり、⽇本でもますます⼈々の移動が盛んになっています。そして、その⽇本には、両親のどちらかが外国⼈という⼈々が多く存在するようになりました。中には外⾒的に⽬⽴つ⼈もいれば、全く⽬⽴たない⼈もいます。ドキュメンタリー作品『ハーフ』は、このようなハーフたちの複雑な⼼境や、現代の⽇本での多⽂化的な経験を通して、発⾒の旅へと導きます。本作品は、５⼈の「ハーフ」たちがかつて単⼀⺠族と⾔われてきた国において、多⽂化・多⼈種であるとは、どういうことなのかを探求する⽇々を追います。ハーフたちの中には⽇本しか知らない⼈たちもいれば、⽇本での⽣活は全くの未知の世界という⼈たちもおり、その⼆つの異なる世界の狭間で⽣きている⼈たちもいます。