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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

Filed Under: Column: Pop Culture, Featured stories Tagged With: 2017, GHOST IN THE SHELL, HENRY GOLDING, Iron Fist, LORAS TYRELL, LUDI LIN, PIONEER WOMAN, REE DRUMMOND, Scarlett Johansson, VOL 36 NO 17 | APRIL 22 - APRIL 28

“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.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Reviews, At the Movies, Featured stories Tagged With: 2017, GHOST IN THE SHELL, VOL 36 NO 15 | APRIL 8 - APRIL 14

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.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles, Featured stories Tagged With: 2017, GHOST IN THE SHELL, VOL 36 NO 14 | APRIL 1 - APRIL 7

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, the film is already receiving a heavy dose of backlash over the casting of Scarlett Johansson as its lead character, Major Motoko Kusanagi. This is […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2016, ABC, Academy Awards, Chinese Hawaiian, Constance Wu, Emma Stone, Eric Card, GHOST IN THE SHELL, Jon Tsuei, M. Night Shyamalan, Major Motoko Kusanagi, New Zealand, Northwest Asian Weekly, Sam Yoshiba, Scarlett Johansson, VOL 35 NO 18 APRIL 30 – MAY 6, culture, japan

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