GHOST IN THE SHELL

A-pop! White people playing Asian-y roles, and Asians don’t like it! For good reason!

April 21, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Back in 2012, “The Pioneer Woman,” a cooking show on Food Network, quietly aired a real racist segment oriented around chicken wings, and it generally went without a lot of comment

“Ghost in the Shell” is a shell of its former self

April 7, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Ghost in the Shell started out as a manga series written and illustrated around 1989 by Masamune Shirow.

Original Ghost in the Shell director backs Scarlett Johansson’s casting

March 31, 2017 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The casting of Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi has caused an uproar as yet another example in a string of high-profile incidents of “whitewashing” in Hollywood.

Another controversial case of whitewashing, Scarlett Johansson cast as lead in “Ghost in the Shell”

April 29, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eric Card Northwest Asian Weekly “Ghost in the Shell,” a popular Japanese manga series following a cyborg policewoman, is getting a live-action adaptation set to release in 2017. However, […]