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You've got to search deeper than the latest showings at the local 37 screen theater.
The River (1951), directed by Jean Renoir, the painters son. Harriet, narrator of the story, lives in India with her middle class English family. Their neighbors invite a cousin, Capt John (white hero), and the movie is a comming of age film with Harriet, Harriet's best friend Valerie, and (Asian girl) Melanie (Indian girl / dancer Radha in video clip below). And there is Harriet's little brother's facination with cobras. Great story, filmed in Technicolor. A beautiful film, and I like every Jean Renoir movie I've seen to date; A Day in the Country (1936), The Lower Debts (1936), Grand Illusion (1937), Rules of the Game (1939), The Diary of a Chambermaid (1945), The River, and The Golden Coach (1953). I have a few more in my netflix queue.
The Transporter (2002) French film starring Jason Statham and Shu Qi (beautiful actress! ), written by Luc Besson - directed: La Femme Nikita(1990), Leon: The Professional (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999).
I've been waiting weeks to get this very long wait netflix DVD:
Sayonara (1957), starring Marlon Brando and Miiko Taka. Army Major falls for Japanese entertainer. Winner of four (4) oscars - Best supporting actor: Red Buttons, Best supporting actress: Miyoshi Umeki, Best art direction, Best sound.
generally, most major films of most sorts are marketed towards white people.
#1 white men are probably better able to identify with a white hero in a movie.
#2 white women (most American women, actually) are not attracted to Asian men - sorry dude, its a fact. so, in many cases, it doesnt pay to have an Asian hero in a movie.
#3 white men (most American men, actually) are very attracted to Asian women, so it pays to have an Asian leading lady or at least pleanty of Asian hotties on display.
so, thats probably why you have so many movies that follow that formula...
but overall, yes, more Black, Hispanic, and Asian leading roles (male and female) would be nice.
The Replacement Killers, Anna and the King, and the Tuxedo are some of the movies that I can think of that featured an Asian male lead paired with a white woman.
The Walking Dead also has a Asian male/White woman romance.
Demographics and marketing play a role in this, but "political correctness" doesn't seem to apply to Asians and particularly Asian men. You guys are like white men without social power, lol.
It's funny that some of the people that are ideologically slanted towards justifying the stereotyping of Asian men are often White men or Asian women who are in a inter-racial/cultural relationship with the other.
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