Stereotypes in the movies

       Nowadays, the movie industry is one of the biggest and the most influential media tool around the world.  Since it has a huge power to affect the audiences, it can work negatively sometimes. Sometimes it brings people the wrong image or idea. For example, the movie, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift uses Korean who never looks Japanese and cannot even Japanese well.

 For me as Japanese, it was so disappointed and felt it just says that American does not care where we, Asians are from, and for them, Asian is just Asian.

       The producers should recognize themselves as they have an influential and a enough power to change people’s thought.  Here is one more hilarious clip of the movie, “Day After Tomorrow”. 

          This part of the scene shows that Tokyo gets battered by the largest hail storm on record. The hail storm leaves the city helpless on its wrath with smashing on to people, cars, and buildings. First time when I watched this scene, I was totally knocked out because it is not Japan at all! I was glad to hear “the collect Japanese” on this. However, the location was totally wrong, even though it tells a name of the real place in subtitle. I know the movie tries to show this terrible disaster happens around the world even such an oriental place. But Japan is not like this. Hollywood, please make sure those things before showing your ignorance.