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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • It’s both quite interesting and horrible how he essentially became typecast negatively due to racism.

    (Source Wikipedia) Throughout Hayakawa’s career, many segments of American society were filled with feelings of anti-Japanese sentiment, partly from nationalism rising from World War I and World War II.[51] Hayakawa was constantly typecast as a villain or forbidden lover and was unable to play parts that would be given to white actors such as Douglas Fairbanks. Hayakawa stated, “Such roles [in The Wrath of the Gods, The Typhoon, and The Cheat] are not true to our Japanese nature… They are false and give people a wrong idea of us. I wish to make a characterization which shall reveal us as we really are.”[52] In 1949, he lamented, “My one ambition is to play a hero”.