Tamlyn Tomita: Self
Quotes
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Tamlyn Tomita : It's a little confusing and disturbing; but, as long as we know that it's only a moment in time that these Hollywood films take place. It's a picture, it's a photograph, it's a Polaroid - of how we wanted to tell stories in that particular time and place.
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Tamlyn Tomita : My mother still loves the fact that there was a Hollywood movie starring Marlon Brando and he falls in love with a geisha; because, it romanticizes Japan.
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Tamlyn Tomita : In Hollywood history, it's always about - fantasy. It's about sexual fantasy. It's about love fantasy.
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Tamlyn Tomita : It really makes me so angry. It makes me so angry that the depiction of Mickey Rooney, who has since apologized - as well as Blake Edwards, for that nasty impression of a Japanese man. It just makes me so angry that that was deemed as funny, that was deemed as hysterical, that was deemed as humorous. And I saw it and a I go, "What the fuck is this?" This is a Japanese man? He has nothing to do with what my father is or my grandfather is or so many Japanese or Japanese-American men I know. It was such an embarrassment.
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Tamlyn Tomita : That's how I've always felt growing and watching these old films is that they didn't really understand who Japanese people were. They really didn't understand who Chinese-Americans were. They just saw them as: other.
