hmm

Despite working outside the classroom in his latest challenge to Hollywood and its distortion of Asian American male sexuality, Hamamoto says he is acting on the tenets of his academic field. "Asian American studies is founded on the principle that it's not enough to describe and rehearse the features of Asian American and Asian oppression, but you have to change it," said Hamamoto. "That's why I made the porn movie – I'm going to change it."


also...


http://dir.salon.com/story/sex/feature/2003/10/10/asian/index.html?pn=2

"I'm talking about a lot of very fundamental issues in our society," says Hamamoto. "Sexuality, race and power. I'm touching all the hot buttons. As a professional intellectual, as a writer and as an artist, that's what I'm supposed to be doing."