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Dec 31, 2021 · Analysis: A Close Reading of ‘Licorice Pizza’s’ Japanese Wife Scenes. Paul Thomas Anderson's 1970s-set awards contender has been accused of racist content.
- Rebecca Sun
Feb 21, 2023 · Translating the Japanese dialogue and doing a deep dive into two scenes accused of anti-Asian racism in Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-nominated 2021 film, Licorice Pizza.
- Licorice Pizza’Scontroversial Scenes
- How Paul Thomas Anderson Has Responded to The Criticism
- The Depiction of Anti-Asian Racism Goes Beyond Licorice Pizza
Gary, a high school student and actor who also has a passion for business, helps his mother run an advertising agency and one of their clients is Jerry Frick (John Michael Higgins), who owns The Mikado, a Japanese restaurant with his wife Mioko (Yumi Mizui), who is Japanese. The controversy stems from two separate scenes in the movie. In the first,...
Controversy around this scene began stirring as soon as Licorice Pizza had a wide release in November 2021, and almost immediately, journalists started asking Paul Thomas Anderson about the scenes with Higgins. In a November interview with the New York Times, Anderson says of the scene “I think it would be a mistake to tell a period film through th...
Licorice Pizza is far from the first movie to depict anti-Asian racism in a controversial way. A recent studyfound that between 2010 and 2019, 43% Asian American roles served as a punchline in top-grossing movies. That’s part of what makes the scenes between Jerry and his wives so divisive: some viewers see her as the butt of the joke, mocked for h...
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- Hannah Lynn
Mar 25, 2022 · When Gary and Alana meet with Jerry and his new Japanese wife, Kimiko (Megumi Anjo), Gary mistakes her for Mioko. Then, after a discussion, Jerry talks to Kimiko in the same caricatured...
Mar 23, 2022 · March 14, 2022. In the first scene in question, Gary watches his mother, Anita (Mary Elizabeth Ellis), present shallow ad copy for the Mikado to Frick and Mioko. Frick “translates” for Mioko in...
Nov 25, 2021 · Director Paul Thomas Anderson's "Licorice Pizza" is being criticized by some on social media for including scenes where a white businessman speaks in a fake Asian accent with his on-screen...
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Dec 19, 2021 · In Licorice Pizza, we first meet Higgins’s Frick and his wife Mioko (Yumi Mizui) as they meet with a publicist to devise the PR strategy for their “authentic” Japanese restaurant.
