Quote:DHBirr wrote:"Memoirs of a Geisha," an award-winning, critically-acclaimed film, produced by Steven Spielberg, starred two Chinese actresses as the titular character and her mentor. Don't hold your breath.
One would think that after all the hubbub that's been raised about such things in recent years -- the The Last Airbender debacle comes to mind -- someone in the casting department would be savvy enough to consider the notion that a character named Kusanagi Motoko, working for the Japanese government, just maybe possibly should be played by an ethnic Japanese. I mean, maybe I'm stereotyping here, that people with Japanese names are slightly more often than not going to look Japanese, but I don't really think that's too much of a stretch....
I grant that Motoko, in an almost-completely mechanical body, isn't absolutely constrained to look Asian of any flavor -- but still, she certainly didn't look Nordic in the original manga.
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