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.
“Hafu” was inspired by the Hafu Project, an exploration of the experiences and identities of mixed-Japanese people through portrait photographs and in-depth interviews. Launched in London in 2008 by social researcher Marcia Yumi Lise and photographer Natalie Maya Willer, the Hafu Project probes the half-Japanese experience by asking what it means to be half-Japanese inside and outside of Japan.
In 2009, filmmakers Lara Perez Takagi and Megumi Nishikura met Marcia and Natalie when they came to expand their project in Japan. Noticing the lack of media attention on hafus and exhausted by the superficial adoration of hafu celebrities on television, Megumi and Lara set out to produce the first ever broadcast-able documentary feature film about hafus, and made by hafus.
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Hafu Film's categories are Movies, Videos, and Sound
Hafu Film's founding year is 2009
