I'm not sure what the term actually means, but I'm guessing the complaint is about a white guy being the protagonist in another culture or a story where the ethnicity is mostly non-white.
Now if that is only half-right, it still doesen't make sense to me. The entire point of the narrative is a US prisoner of war after WW2 joining the Yakuza, hence the friggin title!
I loved this movie! And I get kinda set back by countless comments about "white washing". I'm actually a super-liberal leftist from Norway, and equality, gender fairness, anti-racism and such are high in my personal beliefs - still - this feels like extreme social justice warrioring in the worst way.
So what's the deal here? Why are people bitching about the lead actor being white? An american POW in post-war Japan is the friggin point of the narrative so the complaints about white washing are are illogical as if I were to cry about the the movie being "US-centric" since the lead actor isn't european, it simply makes no sense.
So yeah, can someone explain to me what the deal is? I found this movie extremely enjoyable and overall I'd rate it an 8/10, it was simply enjoyable the whole way through imo.
Submitted April 11, 2018 at 09:31AM by Ouroboros612 https://ift.tt/2JAfGGf