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Finally some black representation - oh, he's a homeless guy
Dropped after episode one.
Quite simply, black people in Japanese dramas are rare. However, here, a black person is used in the role of...a homeless person, who stops Koji from dumping his sandwich in the bin at the last second so that he can have it instead.
I may have missed any other black representation in the show by dropping it early, and I'm happy to be corrected, but this doesn't sit well with me. It's not hard to have made the producer of King Lear black, or the homeless man white, for example. Especially when there are no other black roles in the show.
Otherwise, big fan of Koji Yakusho, and I loved him in Cure and Doppelganger, but this is a show that would make even Ricky Gervais cringe. If you like slop like Extras, you'll likely lap up rubbish like this.
Quite simply, black people in Japanese dramas are rare. However, here, a black person is used in the role of...a homeless person, who stops Koji from dumping his sandwich in the bin at the last second so that he can have it instead.
I may have missed any other black representation in the show by dropping it early, and I'm happy to be corrected, but this doesn't sit well with me. It's not hard to have made the producer of King Lear black, or the homeless man white, for example. Especially when there are no other black roles in the show.
Otherwise, big fan of Koji Yakusho, and I loved him in Cure and Doppelganger, but this is a show that would make even Ricky Gervais cringe. If you like slop like Extras, you'll likely lap up rubbish like this.
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