Japanese Actresses Comment On “Whitewashing” After Watching Ghost in the Shell Movie

The Ghost in the Shell movie that has come under criticism for “whitewashing” sounds like a pretty crappy movie, but this is what some Japanese actresses had to say after watching it:

Yoshihara: People in Japan worship white people.

Kato-Kiriyama: Even in the story, there are Japanese people involved in creating these beings and they also may very well see the ideal human being as a white woman. So you’re sort of messed up all the way around.

Agena: Yes! I felt more messed up watching this movie. It reinforced my own personal messed-up standards of physical beauty.

Okatsuka: This is an important conversation to have.

Yoshihara: Even my ex-boyfriend, who is Asian-American, said, “What Asian lady has a body like Scarlett Johansson?”

Agena: There are certain priorities there.

Okatsuka: It’s this weird thing where Asian-Americans or Asian nationals living here like me, working in film, are fighting both our motherland and white producers here. We’re walking this in-between where I scream at Hollywood but I’m also like, “Why’d you do that, Japan?!” Et tu, Brute, on both sides.

Yoshihara: Japanese people are self-loathing.

Okatsuka: Is it crazy that suicide rates are so high in Japan?

Yoshihara: Even my sister committed suicide. That’s how many people commit suicide in Japan. That’s how messed up it is.  [Hollywood Reporter]

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setnaffa
setnaffa
7 years ago

So… lefty reporters in Japan just as pointless and shallow as those in America…

What part of “It’s a movie about a robot” escaped the haters?

Jigoku
Jigoku
7 years ago

So could one say that Asians making a western style movie (for example) yellow washing? Is yellow washing PC to say? Obviously it’s ok to say white washing, so it must be.

Hoosier X
Hoosier X
Reply to  Jigoku
7 years ago

Do you have an example of a Japanese movie that does this? An example would help the discussion. (And also provide for a little variety in the kind of discussion where people usually try to be as vague as possible because being specific doesn’t hep their argument.)

guitard
guitard
7 years ago

Does bukake fall under the category of “whitewashing?”

setnaffa
setnaffa
Reply to  Hoosier X
7 years ago

Nothing like having your mind made up before you start, eh?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
7 years ago

Does bukake fall under the category of “whitewashing?”

Any hate I ever directed at you just got nullified.

Smokes
Smokes
Reply to  ChickenHead
7 years ago

Bukake? What’s that? 😐

Anyhow as much as I’d love to go on for 50 paragraphs as to what’s wrong with their argument it’s a simple concept known as “property rights”, whoever made this movie owns the rights and can cast whoever the F they want. These people suffer from imagined ownership and have no say in the matter. Want to see Japanese actors? Oh I don’t know, how about seeing any one of the bajillion Japanese movies available? I almost hope this movie’s a big enough success so that Hollywood does this more.

Smokes
Smokes
Reply to  Hoosier X
7 years ago

You don’t need an example, he’s posing a question. Answer it or don’t; quit pretending you want discussion. Stop wasting our time with your weak troll attempt.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
7 years ago

The Good, the Bad, and the Weird was a shameless yellow washing.

Seriously? Asian cowboys?

…though it was a really entertaining movie that perfectly pulled off Asian cowboys.

Denny
Denny
7 years ago

Scarlett Johannson also starred in anti-Trump women’s marches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UndhQLmRXMM

liz
liz
Reply to  Denny
7 years ago

Sean Penn’s ex girlfriend.
Now there’s a shocker.

setnaffa
setnaffa
Reply to  Denny
7 years ago

They make creams and ointments for that Trump rash you seem to have…

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