After a long career that began in Kyoto and led to two Academy Awards for makeup (Darkest Hour, 2018; Bombshell, 2020), Kazuhiro Tsuji formally became an American citizen in March 2019 and legally changed his name to Kazu Hiro. Standing on the Academy Awards stage in 2020, Hiro gave a blunt, personal explanation for that decision: he said he had become an American because he “got tired” of Japanese culture, calling it “too submissive” and saying it was a place where it was “hard to make a dream come true.” The line was notable precisely because it came from an immigrant artist who had forged deep creative ties on both sides of the Pacific and who had just been publicly honored by the American film industry.
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Kazu Hiro’s Candid 2020 Oscars Comment: ‘I Got Tired’ of Japanese Culture After Naturalization
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After a long career that began in Kyoto and led to two Academy Awards for makeup (Darkest Hour, 2018; Bombshell, 2020), Kazuhiro Tsuji formally became an American citizen in March 2019 and legally changed his name to Kazu Hiro. Standing on the Academy Awards stage in 2020, Hiro gave a blunt, personal explanation for that decision: he said he had become an American because he “got tired” of Japanese culture, calling it “too submissive” and saying it was a place where it was “hard to make a dream come true.” The line was notable precisely because it came from an immigrant artist who had forged deep creative ties on both sides of the Pacific and who had just been publicly honored by the American film industry.
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