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 San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi wrote, produced and directed an independent documentary called “The Slanted Screen,” which examines the history of Asian American men in American cinema. Adachi covers Hollywood’s stereotypical portrayals of Asian men as either an evil “Fu Manchu’’ character or as an asexual nerd. The movie was shown at a previous San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The movie features interviews with Mako, James Shigeta and Dustin Nguyen.


Here is a link to the documentary website and a news article:


There was a segment on NPR awhile ago, and I took some notes of the interview below.
 
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