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faceclaims13 · 2 years

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Hiii!!! I hope you are doing good. Can i please request a faceclaim who is Japanese-Korean ethnically (apart from Giselle please), If not then could you give me a female who has a flirty vibe. No problem if you couldn't find one. Hope you have a nice day !!. (✿◠‿◠)

Hi!!! Sorry for the delay 😭😭😭 Here are some Japanese-Korean face claims! Hope you like them! ☺️

Kiko Mizuhara - You probably already know her 🤣 she's 31, she's a model and an actress too. Her mother is a Zainichi Korean (descendants of ethnic Koreans who emigrated to Japan during colonial times and stayed there after WWII) and her father is a white American man.

Ayumi Lee - 37 years old, model, singer and actress. Her mother is Korean and her father is a second generation Zainichi Korean.

Mina Otomonai/Chanmina - 23 years old, model and singer. Her mother is Korean and her father is Japanese. I feel like she has the flirty vibe you're looking for 🤭

Lee Hyunri - 35 years old. Actress. Korean born in Japan.

I hope these help you, I couldn't find a lot of them 😭 if you still want some face claims with this flirty vibe let me know!

#asian face claim #face claim #faceclaim #rp help #face claim help #mixed face claim #mixed fc #mixed women #zainichi koreans

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owl-deer · 2 months

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Dew, Oliver. Zainichi Cinema: Korean-in-Japan Film Culture. 1st ed. 2016., pp. 47-48

#Zainichi Koreans #Japanese Cinema #What in the name?#Japanese minority cinema deals with otherness in a very interesting way #I think it would translate wonderfully into heteronormativity and the performance of gender #Japanese Koreans

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tanuki-kimono · 2 years

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[Being Japanese], documentary in 2 parts by Greg Lam from Life where I am from, tackling the subject of identity in Japanese so called “homogeneous” society (spoiler: it’s not as homogeneous as far right would like to believe). In Greg’s own words:

What makes a Japanese person Japanese? Is it the blood that runs through their veins? A parent they were born to? The country they grew up in? Is it how they look? How they act? How they speak? Their citizenship? A documentary exploring what it means to be Japanese.

Greg, father of 2 hâfu kids himself, went around interviewing several people about what they think about their identities and relation with Japan. Profils includes Ainu, “Okinawan”/Ryukyuan, but also Korean-descendants, nikkei/Japanese descendants, hâfu/biracial Japanese or kikokushijo/returnees. Second part of the documentary also covers refugees and naturalised/dual citizens (including a disabled person).

I can’t recommend you enough to watch this documentary! Be aware that some parts are difficult as they cover traumatic events/issues (racism, assault, etc) encountered by the interviewees. However, Greg Lam never falls prone to tearjerking, and many passages are amazingly covered!

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tananansad · 3 months

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sorry i know this is just 무엇 보다도 무엇 보다도 in yale romanization but just. Just let me have this one okay

#MYOOS POH TAY TOH MYOOS POH TAY TOH #thanks mrs song i do love my muse potatos #linguistics #language #lingblr #langblr #korean #한국어 #zainichi korean to be exact

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just-sp-in-inginthevoid · 1 year

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We know the Kamo practice concubinage and Noritoshi's mother was a concubine. Since he's seen as illegitimate that means she was what is called an unofficial concubine

I'm not sure what can make a concubine unofficial (without mentioning how would their child be consider illegitimate when the main wife could adopt concubines' son(s) and.. well I guess that made them legitimate(which I am sure nori's father's wife had to do)) BUT I can think of reasons

I didn't find one I liked though but now. Now I have my headcanon (that I wish won't be crushed by canon one day)

Noritoshi's mom is a second/third generation Zanryū

What's a Zanryū ? Glad you ask !

In 1945, (russia) the USSR attacked Manchuria, a Japanese puppet state (which is nowadays a northeast Chinese territory, north to North Korea (that's a too short explanation, youd have to do your own researches about that one sorry)). Nobody expected that, and the Japanese had to retreat

Soldiers first.

Some men did succeed to bring back their wife and children with them but most didn't. Thousands were left behind and died bc urss and the Japanese gouvernement didn't want to bring them back, going as far as to say some of them were dead

Those people the Japanese gouvernement abandoned are what we call Zanryū. But it doesn't stop here

In the 80s, 40 years later, Japanese gouvernement began a repatriation for Zanryū. Because it refused to give Japanese nationality to children who had Chinese father, lots ofJapanese women stayed in China where they had rebuilt their life. Orphans who were adopted in Chinese family and never told about their origins didn't came back as well (for obvious reasons)(and those who did know probably didn't decide to go to Japan either). Those who (re)married Japanese men came back (alongside those Japanese men and people who didn't get married(with how it was at the time, I don't think there were much if any))

Except. Their children had been raised as Chinese, most didn't speak Japanese or did but poorly. I think you know this but Japan hates when people can't fit in the mold (and there's also the hate/racism they have against Chinese (and Korean(we can see similar stories between Zanryū and Zanichi)(what are Zanichi ? (Descendants of) South & North Koreans who were forcefully moved to Japan between 1910 and 1945 basically)(half of nowadays Zanichi Koreans generation don't have the Japanese nationality even though they were born and raised there)). Even when they are 100% Japanese by blood. They're hatred upon because they aren't 'completely' Japanese. They behave too much like Chinese

( - Unrelated but the current most dangerous/threatening crime organization in Japan is composed of Zanryū descendants. Which was created bc they couldn't - were refused to - fit in)

So yeah. I decided Norimom was a second/third generation Zanryū/the daughter of Zanryū (no need to think far to see why the Jujutsu Society would refuse to make her an official concubine)

#jjk headcanon #noritoshi kamo #jjk noritoshi #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #norimom #jjk headcanons #i actually thought about her being a zainichi korean once but idk #my brain didn't vibe with the idea

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shihlun · 2 years

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Yoichi Sai

- All Under the Moon

1993

#yoichi sai #all under the moon #崔洋一 #月はどっちに出ている #japanese film #1993 #zainichi korean

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raziel011def · 1 year

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If you think I'm not getting Jet posing like this and roided tf out. You got another thing comin'

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eirikswood · 1 year

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Kaneshiro-san (Mr. Kim) Dreams of Joseon Hats (and Knows No Homeland) - in 1945, there were 2.4 million newly decolonized Korean people living in Japan. Three-quarters of those rendered stateless and nameless (our grandfather among them) would "return home," repatriating a divided, occupied, and rapidly destabilizing peninsula on the cusp of war (1950-1953). The 600,000 that kept their Japanese names and stayed behind in Japan became Zainichi Kankokujin / Zainihon Chōsenjin - the invisible Koreans secretly passing for Japanese citizens, or those living openly as an underclass in ethnic enclave communities.

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/eirikswood/kaneshiro-san-mr-kim-dreams-of-joseon-hats-and-knows-no-homeland/

#zainichi #korean art #korean history #ukiyoe #minhwa #oil on wood #aapi

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gozdziak · 2 years

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Currently reading: Chesil's debut novel about prejudice and the complexities of a teen girl’s experience growing up in Japan as a Zainichi Korean. Reviewers compared it to Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street.

"The sky is about to fall. Where do you go?” It’s 2003, and the narrator Pak “Ginny” Jinhee considers high school—and actually the whole world—“a cruel place.” As a marginalized and mistreated Zainichi Korean from Tokyo, Jinhee changes schools, moves from Japan to Hawaii before landing with an American host mother in Oregon. Jinhee’s existential troubles stem from her intolerance of injustice and self-proclaimed revolutionary tactics.

The writing is very good. The novel includes Compact chapters set a brisk pace, punctuated by family letters from North Korea and a scene in the format of a play that flesh out a collective history and entrenched prejudice against Koreans in Japan. The narrative pivots between Ginny’s fragments of memory and her current dilemma in the U.S.: whether to exert academic effort or embrace expulsion. It's a complex, layered story, originally published in Japanese. The cathartic conclusion comes about when Ginny resolves to catch the proverbial sky as it falls, thereby forgiving herself and claiming her agency.

#chesil #the color of the sky is the shape of the heart #Zainichi Korean #debut novel #coming of age #migration

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schafpudel · 2 years

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Think everyone memeing on the Shinzo Abe assassination attempt should remember that Japanese reactionaries are refusing to believe a “real Japanese” could’ve done it and are blaming Zainichi Koreans:

https://twitter.com/hermit_hwarang/status/1545276032458149891

Like.... things could easily get uglier in Japan politically in the fallout of this, especially for ethnic minorities who have historically been used as scapegoats by Japanese nationalism. Assassinating one shithead politician or demagogue alone wouldn’t stop a far-right movement from further growing or radicalizing in any other country, after all.

#im just. concerned. like yea fuck shinzo abe but. man.

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commajade · 2 years

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the person who assassinated abe was japanese but the people that will suffer most from this are zainichi koreans, ryukyu and ainu people, and the other ethnic minorities of japan

#shinzo abe #chinese south east asian all kinds of ethnic minorities r already being targeted rn

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chubby-dumpling-project · 11 months

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Momona Tamada, born 2006, Japanese, Canadian

similar faces/older versions requested by @leelestrange:

Jessica Lu, born 1985, Chinese, Japanese

Kiko Mizuhara, born 1990, English, some Scottish, Irish, German, Zainichi Korean

Rina Sawayama, born 1990, Japanese, British

Sakura Heffron, born 1994, Japanese, Norwegian, American

Midori Francis, born 1994, Japanese, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Italian

Adeline Rudolph, born 1995, German, Korean

Yumi Nu, born 1996, Dutch, Japanese

Natalie Nootenboom, born 2000, Dutch, Japanese

Cha Lor, born 2000, Hmong

Jennifer Koch, born unknown, Korean, German

#faceclaim #rpg #rpg ressources #faceclaim suggestions #rpg faceclaim #momona tamada #jessica lu #kiko mizuhara #sakura heffron #midori francis #adeline rudolph #yumi nu #natalie nootenboom #jennifer koch #request #Rina Sawayama #Cha Lor #resemblance template

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owl-deer · 2 months

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Continuation from the previous post: Oliver Dew, on "Pacchigi!"

It is interesting how, while "show not tell" is normally treated as a peak of visual media, when it comes to depictions of trauma and abuse, be that by government, by a group or by a person, is always more powerful when shared through storytelling, the oral testimony.

I think the big part of it is the subjectiveness of pain, and also that there's an element of reclaiming the agency here: when we don't focus on the horror-porn of the event itself but on the hurt and the need for compassion the event facilitated. It's the narrative, the storytelling where the victims finally have full authorship over the experience of something that was done to them.

Uninterrupted testimony, unfiltered reaction to the memory of the event is always the best, the most impactful.

#looking at you avatar live show adaptation #and you horror documentaries about Holocaust I had to watch as a child #Dear Pyongyang does it well actually #Zainichi #Japanese Koreans #the trauma narrative

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immunologies · 2 months

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look at my land developer dawg i’m going to jail 😫

lmao hiiii everyone! i’m anwar (not hadid) + always writing for underused model fcs but anywhooo — thank god for reopening bc i was supposed to app during the first launch but i was on vacation so my activity would’ve flopped real bad BUT… I’M HERE NOW… a lil jet lagged still but fuck it we ball :’) i present to you: iida!

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okawara yosuke, 33 (proud twink death survivor btw he left that long haired era behind in his mid 20s), born and raised in fukuoka prefecture so you know he’s a bearer of the masculinized stereotype that kyushu men have but surprisingly his ego isn’t as fragile as i would expect it to be — i wonder why?

lower middle class to middle class financial status for the entirety of his childhood / it’s one of those things where as a kid you’re like “well, this is it” because you’re not fully aware that your family doesn’t have money on top of being surrounded by other kids who, in return, also come from families without bands so it is what it is / it can’t be that bad when your necessities have always been met

tbh there’s not much to write home about in terms of his childhood as in it was fortunately(?) uneventful for the most part despite starting off rocky: his mom was barely twenty when she birthed him, two freshly married young adults rushed into the hard-bitten chaos of childrearing, do they resent bro in absence of trying to enjoy the beginnings of their married life? probably, but it doesn’t matter by the time his younger brother is born, soo la voo or whatever the french be saying (tiktok reference btw if ur uncool)

yosuke is your average kyushu boy growing up: he spends his time outside rather than inside with his head in the books (it’s the same shit his teachers would always say about his lack of potential, ie: he’s lazy), has boyish fights with his younger and complete opposite of a younger brother, tries his best not to piss off his stay-at-home mom and stay away from his chronically emotionally constipated aviation mechanic drunk for a dad, you get the idea

…UNTIL the voices started to become apparent more than ever and he tells his mother who dismisses it but is reminded of her grandfather who unalived himself from alleged schizophrenia but nobody in her family knows if he ever got tested for it (y’know, if it was a genetic hereditary thing) or if it was just the aftermath of unresolved trauma/ptsd because grandpa fought in the war (you know which war) NOBODY KNOWS A GODDAMN THING. except yosuke as a child hated going to see his relatives in the far village/countryside on his mom’s hick side

lmao but when yosuke told his mom “yeah girly pop dad’s gonna have a shitty liver if he doesn’t stop drinking so much in the next couple years or so” is when she drops his ass off at a mental health facility so she definitely prioritizes her man over a kid that she wasted her 20s raising! (she’s definitely an unevolved libra no shade to yall sorry) but anywho! he’s diagnosed at 17, life is looking brighter(?), but his “schizophrenia” isn’t something talked about much at home because let’s be serious. it’s fucking abe shinzo’s japan at the time, we do not talk about shit like this

yosuke goes on to carry two jobs after high school because his parents didn’t save a college tuition fund for his lazy, non-academically inclined ass so it’s up to him to be the architect of his future / he’s psyched about entering the aviation department of kyoto university after working his ass off by trying to build a humble living but somebody’s bored and filthy rich daughter from a zainichi korean family comes into his life and what does he do? say goodbye to the ol’ pilot dream and traps this woman so he won’t ever have to worry about money like his family did

mind you he actually had love for the old girl! but he’s a gemini and gemini men get bored when you’re not their outstanding type or half as witty or clever as he may be. he knows that he’s settling for what poor lee jiyoung can do for him so after dating in college, yosuke goes on to marry the woman but never goes on to tell her about his “schizophrenia” because he’s scared that it’ll ruin his marriage (spoiler alert: it did)

so uh *scratches head and turns the page* they end up divorcing because his condition worsened as a result of his body becoming “immune” to the medications because he never had schizophrenia in the first place (ie: iida canon) — and he tried saving the relationship for the sake of his position at tk group, he really did, but at the end of the day he’s just some penniless, opportunistic man who failed to completely use up his wife’s beneficiaries. but again, he’s a gemini man who’s good at playing the part of using his “mental health” as a crutch of their failed marriage instead of being exposed for taking advantage of his ex-wife financially

(trust me he’d rather be that Type of Shitty instead of portrayed as the Exploitative Type of Shitty because it gets some pity points on his end. believe the scheme!)

so now? okawara yosuke takes up the tk group’s little passion project proposal with goero because it’s a chance at redemption. he needs to prove one way or another that he’s worthy of his job, that he’s the right man for it, his undying loyalty to the corp (questionable :3), and he’s taken the more political and diplomatic approach of gravitating/winning the trust or appeal to goero’s inhabitants instead of the founding families ‘cause his coworker’s already doing that anyways — he understands his shortcomings as a foreigner (more so as a japanese guy telling yall what to do with the land so goero can prosper financially and commodity-speaking for trade.. and commerce..) so if he can strengthen his morale to the people even if it doesn’t mean the quota won’t be met — yosuke would prefer that for the sake of ethics. he will promise the residents of goero that much: business or not.

that is all. i think. :-) i’ll be yapping for specifics on discord if needed be

personality!

likes to think of himself as an ambivert over being written off as an extrovert which is kinda true? despite being a professional yapper with those he’s suuuuper comfortable with, he finds that people who don’t match or vibe with him tire him out very quickly / genuinely a very friendly person and is emotionally inhibited probably as a result of his career where logic/numbers/analytics are concerned so yosuke prefers to focus on reason over the “possibilities” … even tho he would like to be that optimistic / isn’t one to have an extreme temper, but can be prone to outbursts if incompetence is in question / really. really. hates the notion of being black-or-white on many matters as life usually puts him in the grey area so. u know. atm doesn’t have any ulterior motives because he doesn’t have it in him anymore to be evil or whatever. he ran out of plans. just trying do the right thing from here on out, so, let him help you! bro’s probably a lawful neutral man i know i’m sorry for being boring :/ c’est la vie

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i prefer brainstorming over anything and i’m down for just about everything so hit me

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junotter · 9 months

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I've deleted tiktok off my phone and now mainly use Instagram reels. I get a bunch of content related to Japan (makes sense I'm moving there) but omfg the comments are like the trenches. Some are purely racist to Japanese citizens and others are such Japan dick riders that it's insane.

Anyway recently got a post about a white guy complaining that TOKYO has gotten too "foreign" and that he doesn't want Japan to "lose" their culture. I've got a lot of thoughts on this but nowhere to put them so here they are:

I'm literally losing my mind at how many people think Japan is this orientalist non-westernized country when Japan has westernized itself since the 1890s. Losing my mind at foreigners in Japan complaining that there are more foreigners in Japan and acting like they've been in Japan since before it when they moved there in like 2010.

Saw someone comparing Japan to Hawai'i in how it's losing its culture (truly mindboggling considering what Japan has done to Okinawa) and another guy who's name was literally Noah saying "Americans should keep their bs out of japan no one wants your stupid westernization" like dude ur name is Noah.

Also, no part of America has "westernized" Japan since the early 20th century, and Japan's "westernization" is entirely Japan's own doing for wanting to be in proximity to whiteness. No other culture country or people gets to decide where Japan's culture gets to go, that is solely up to the Japanese people (mind you not the government but the PEOPLE)

Most people obsessed with Japanese culture have never read an actual book on Japan that goes beyond "Japan has shrines that worship the kami or spirits of the world" and "being polite is important as a tourist in Japan". If they did, then they'd know that during the pre-war era and throughout the wartime era, the Japanese government purposefully put out cultural propaganda in order to boost nationalism. They wanted Japan to seem entirely unique and therefore more special than all other Asian countries. This is not to say Japan does not have beautiful cultural traditions that extend centuries, but largely those have been transformed and marketed to Japanese and foreign tourists alike.

Shrines and shrine groups donate and mass support alt-right-wing groups in Japan. The over-politeness culture is part of the awful workplace conditions and suicide rates. Actual Japanese people have spoken to these facts but that does not mean they do not like their home culture. Globalization/modernization will not westernize Japan. Women's rights, LGBT rights, labor rights, and immigrants' rights, will not westernize Japan. They will save Japan.

These Japan-obsessed right-wingers will ignore the hundreds of years of protests and civil rights groups to create an orientalist idea of Japan. None and I mean NONE of those people care about Japan, Japanese culture, or Japanese people, they only care about living out their orientalist fantasies while actual Japanese people living their daily lives are simply background props.

We need to stop pretending Japanese people are not their own people with history, culture, and movements.

Here are just SOME links on Japanese politics not known by most people (please message me if you're interested in these topics or would like more resources):

Nippon Kaigi- Alt Right Religious Group

Japanese Work Culture

Ainu - Indigenous Group of the Lands in the Okhotsk Sea

Ryukuans (Okinawans) - Indigenous Group of the Ryukyu Islands

Scream from the Shadows- A Book on the 60s Feminist Movement in Japan

Chizuko Ueno "Forty Years of Japanese Feminism" - Prominent Japanese Feminist

Burakumin - Lowest "Caste" Group in Japan

Zainichi Koreans - Resident Koreans Who's Families Entered Japan During and After the War

LGBT Rights - LBGT+ Rights Group in Japan

Organizing the Spontaneous - 60s ANPO Movement

Sadly I cannot find the twitter page that often posts modern-day Japanese news that normally is not posted by other news organizations. But if any of you remember it please send me the page so I can add it as I believe it is an important resource. Or just reblog with it!

Look, whether you like or dislike Japan, remember it's a country with people just like anywhere else. Do not dismiss the work activists have done in Japan. Do not say Japan "needs this political movement", instead talk about how Japanese progressive groups need international support and recognition (mind you don't say this about any country, especially largely nonwhite countries!!! you are completely ignoring and rejecting the work millions have put into social change!!! instead talk about those people!!! talk about those movements!!! don't let their efforts be forgotten!!! don't let any government tell you these movements are new!!! THEY AREN'T!!!!). One of the biggest ways we can create change and push away alt-right groups and people from any place is by ruining their image of those places.

Do NOT let the alt-right in Japan convince you Japan is purely homogenous and that Japan is the best country in the world. Do not let the Japanese government erase the Ainu, the Ryukyuan, Immigrants, Zainichi Koreans, LGBTQ+ citizens, women's rights, the Burakumin, the poor, and the communists/progressives of Japan. Do not let ANY country erase that history!

DO NOT LET JAPAN PLAY THE VICTIM TO "WESTERIZATION"

#Japan #Japanese politics #weeb culture #white supremacy #progressive politics #this post got way out of hand and there's still so much to add that i feel bad for leaving things out #anti blackness is something id also like to talk about but i also know there's countless black people sharing their own stories #please feel free to message me if you're interested in further research and information #especially on things like anpo the ainu ryukyuans and burakumin #if anyone is interested i have a massive paper on burakumin political action and history post war i wrote #please dm for more resources!!

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shihlun · 2 years

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Yoichi Sai

- All Under the Moon

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#all under the moon #yoichi sai #崔洋一 #月はどっちに出ている #japanese film #1993 #zainichi korean

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