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Why HBO Hates Tokyo Vice

Why HBO Hates Tokyo Vice

A Fish Out of Water

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Isaac Simpson
Mar 20, 2024
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A precious new vein of IP: fish-out-of-water stories about Westerners living not in the third world where they become white saviors (there’s plenty of those), but in places, like contemporary Japan, where they suffer the reverse. Stigmatized outsiders—called gaijin in Japan—stuck below a glass ceiling. Discriminated against for skin color and origin.

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