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One Big Hapa Family (2010)

One Big Hapa Family poster
Directed by
Jeff Chiba Stearns
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
3.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker investigates why many Japanese-Canadians marry people of different ethnic backgrounds. He interviews mixed-race family members about their experiences and feelings about their identities.

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What happens

One Big Hapa Family is a 2010 live-action/animated documentary film directed by Canadian director Jeff Chiba Stearns. The documentary explores aspects that influence most Japanese-Canadians to marry inter-racially and how the mixed Japanese generation perceives its multiracial identity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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