'It is the height of white privilege to think a white person is better equipped to play an Asian character than an Asian person.'
opens to the soundtrack of a haunting chant in Japanese while surreal images of cybernetic body parts coalesce into a naked female form. As the artificial body emerges from its womb-like incubator, the outer encasement peels away to reveal the face of a black-wigged
as the film’s protagonist, Major — eventually revealed to be the cyberized reincarnation of a young Japanese girl named Motoko Kusanagi., deft screenwriting enabled Johansson — who is not Japanese — to play the lead role of a Japanese woman. But, for many Asian-Americans, Johansson’s casting was just the latest in a long pattern of Hollywood selecting white actors in Asian roles to make Asian characters more palatable for white audiences.
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