After Yang's director explains how he upends sci-fi's 'hollo

Science fiction movies and TV often fetishize Asian culture and bodies, using the old "inscrutable Oriental" stereotype to create a futuristic techno-orientalism that denies Asian people depth or humanity. After Yang writer-director Kogonada explains how his film explores and refutes that trope, to tell the kind of story he rarely sees on screen.

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