Why would they expect an American adaptation of something to have a fully Japanese cast? It also wouldn't make sense for the cast to be fully Japanese and the language be English.
I really don't understand these people, do they realize that Japan has their own film industry where they can watch movies with Japanese people in the Japanese language.
This was an American movie about international criminals set in Tokyo, and contained American, Japanese, Russian, Mexican, German and British characters.
white bad
non-white good
>has to make any topic about himself and being a victim
Fragile.
>libtards invent victimology
>accuse others of having a victim complex when they point out what's happening
Why are you people so stupid and dishonest?
They're not stupid, they're just evil.
>assumes I'm the opposite side because I call him out on being moronic
Fragile.
Having Michael Shannon do a David Carradine type of character was so cool. That was the highlight and him fighting Hiroyuki Sanada -- the most famous action stars of 70s-80 (Carradine) + 80s-90s (Sanada.)
White people are evil colonisers and don't deserve to be in media even though Japan did it too albeit
I don’t get it, do you guys like race swapping characters now?
If its a foreign adaptation in makes sense.
If Korea adapted the little mermaid I would expect the entire cast to be Korean.
Frankly, its not race swapping that makes people mad its that race swapping always means "make this character black". If they made the little mermaid hispanic or Asian I guarantee you wouldn't see any complaints.
No one outside of Japan has read the book that the movie is based on except perhaps for the director of the movie. It's like how no one cared about Will Smith being hired for Men in Black because no one has read what that was based on either.
Why can't they just watch Bullet Train with a full Japanese cast
Lol
Since when are Vietnamese "people of color?"
>Wait, people were actually offended
americans probably, japanese in japan didn't give a shit I bet.
>do they realize that Japan has their own film industry
yes they do, but contrary to america
>I really don't understand these people
places that aren't the US, haven't make a big fuss about casting the minority that invades their country in the correct ethnic role that the original text was, down to the voice actors for things that don't even have a race. So yes if an american production featuring a full american cast would have been normal under other social circumstances imposes, in the current us it isn't and people say, "japanese thing, needs japanese cast", "black thing needs black cast" . "white thing, add POC or you racist", ignoring the fact that there aren't enough japanese actors in Hollywood or not of the caliber of an A list actors as traction.
>This was an American movie about international criminals set in Tokyo,
now I haven't read the original novel and the author has stated that the actors aren't really racially defined, but I guess they have changed some stuff, since some names are japanes, like they tipically do for japanese movies, and the fact that it falls in the usual trope of "set in japan, all enemies are japanese, while the protagonists are somehow all diversity westerners", I doubt that a lot of plot points are the same too, at the end changing japanese shit like they usually do with everything they adapt from japan, down to the name, is a pretty common practice. But at the end they have paid for the rights and they can make it however they want.
Either way the only thing I don't like about it the brazzer version of a school girl with a forehead that is an airplane landing field, I will never forgive them for not casting a real jp JK.
>do they realize that Japan has their own film industry
and another footnote about this, a lot of countries, don't have their film industry, or is abyssimal, and their cultural production is shit, so when hollywood decides to produce something in their high quality way, those minorities get riled up since they can finally feel rappresented. Is a consequence of wanting a global market and being multicultural.
And is the same with minority characters in shows and animation, those minorities finally get 1 character that is of their ethnicity or culture, and they want it to be like THEM, dubbed by someone like them, so they somehow feel more connected. Basically they expect other races to fill them their lack of media for their culture.
Naturally this isn't really a problem for japan, since is only second to anglophone countries as cultural output, but if you do the same for an african story you will have some problems
Japs in Japan didn't give a shit because they have their own culture to be proud of. They don't give a shit about amerimutt movies. If a Japanese director tried to put a Korean comfort woman in as film to lecture the Japanese audience, that would be a different story.
It's funny that Last Samurai is another that people complain about yet its the 7th highest grossing foreign film in Japan of all time
>They don't give a shit about amerimutt movies
I mean they very clearly do, but they definitely have more of a domestic film industry than most countries.
>and the fact that it falls in the usual trope of "set in japan, all enemies are japanese, while the protagonists are somehow all diversity westerners"
The enemies are Russians, the Japanese are the 'good guys' along with the diversity westerners.
The big bad and his daughter are Russian, but the generic mooks that work for him are a bunch of different races.
bullet train was probably the most fun movie released that year eat my dick
deadass i agree.
I honestly did not recognize Michael Shannon until after the movie as Red Death.
Bullet Train was shitty because it tried too hard to be a Guy Ritchie flick.
But yeah, Zod's yakuza boss character should've been a jap and so could the girl.
I was, yes. I've written to my MP. Still no reply.
I don't remember any German characters.
>movie set in the 2 hour bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto
>story spans 12 hours and they all act like its an overnight train
>fast trains are too unrealistic for American audiences
There should not be "American adaptations" of anything. Just literally watch the original and shut up.
There isn't a Japanese movie. It's an American adaptation of a Japanese book.
But I guess Scorsese shouldn't have made The Departed and people should just watch the Hong Kong original.
it's somewhat understandable for blacks to complain because they're easily baited but japs have no excuse to whine about shit like this
Actual Japanese aren't the ones complaining, it's Asian Americans who are throwing a b***h-fit. Americanized Asians are some of the most insufferable people on the planet.
>I really don't understand these people, do they realize that Japan has their own film industry where they can watch movies with Japanese people in the Japanese language.
The only Japanese movies that burgers know are Godzilla and anime.
wheres the lemon and tangerine spin off
its really interesting that all the critics in that snippet aren't actually from japan, or any actual asian country for that matter
The people of /r/AsianAmerican were mad, I just checked
Then again people who frequent an internet forum based on their race probably aren't a good representation for anything.