Good Luck Soup: The American Experience Through Asian Eyes opens with a somber voiceover from its creator, 31-year-old Matthew Hashiguchi, describing a memory from his childhood: “I was yelling at my dad, I don’t want to be Japanese, I don’t want to be Japanese. I’m not exactly sure why I said that, but obviously, I was angry at the reality of being different. And in my 12-year-old mind, he was responsible for that.”