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NEWS: Live-Action Attack on Titan Confirmed for 2 Films

If you don't hear people complaining, it's because it's not really our place to decide what's offensive for Japan. Also, racism is rather different in Japan than in it is in America, so this situation is not the same as if a Hollywood movie casts Asian characters as caucasians instead.

If you don't hear people complaining, it's because it's not really our place to decide what's offensive for Japan. Also, racism is rather different in Japan than in it is in America, so this situation is not the same as if a Hollywood movie casts Asian characters as caucasians instead.

In terms of Japanese film. Japan is just lazy and cheap when it comes to making live action movies. You know they could have found some european or american people who spoke japanese to play the roles of the characters who weren't asian. They chose not to do so cause it would be to much work. Not saying Hollywood is better they are just as lazy with there casting of white people for asian roles. But, the thing is Japan sucks in comparison to Hollywood when it comes to CGI and Special effects so you would think they would want to i don't know at least make everything else spot on like the casting.

All and all this movie is gonna be shit. There is just too much in terms of CGI and Special effects that the Japanese are not capable of handling. It's to bad there aren't any directors in the west who are interested in Attack on Titan. I mean shit someone show AoT to Guillermo del Torro he would do a stellar job with it.

Basically these live action movies are being made to cash in on the franchise. Which is a bad idea since they will basically be spending money on a huge production of movies that will most likely not do well or if they do well they will only barely break even. So really these movies shouldn't have been made. At all .

"-What the hell did you wipe on my shirt?!

- My faith in humanity."

I mean which Japanese films can hold candle to The Fatal Encounter, and Drug War. I can't think of any Japanese films that can hold candle (well except the live-action Kenshin film) to these 2 non-Japanese Asian films I mention.

I would imagine you don't watch a lot of Japanese films, considering that you can't find any movie besides Kenshin film, that matches those two. I am not a blind Japanophile and Drug War was one of my favorite movies of 2013, but good lord Japanese cinema hosts some of the best directors currently working by global standards. Your entire dismissal of their cultural output is ignorant,irritating and slightly problematic.

I'm sorry, I mean recent Japanese films (anything coming out after 2009), I didn't mean to generalize all Japanese films. But a lot of the recent Japanese films coming out doesn't look as good as it used to, Japanese films released from 1950-2008 looks way better then what is coming out these days.

It's only racist when whites do it.

No but really, America a diverse country with many races and ethnicities, so there's just no reason casting directions can't find talented people to play roles for Asian characters or whatever the role calls for. Japan is more or less entirely of the Yamato Japanese ethnicity, so finding white actors or others to play roles in Japanese is probably a huge challenge unless you're just going to dub them. Then there's the matter of will Japanese audiences to see casts not filled with Japanese actors? If that's racist, it's also reality. If Japan had a comparable population of non-Japanese, yeah sure, you could have a stronger argument, but they don't.
How many non-Asians even live in Japan?
How many are actors?
How many are good actors?
How many are good actors who speak good enough Japanese to be comprehended without subtitles?
I'm sure if you asked those questions of Asians in America (or really anywhere, as English is global), the number will be exponentially larger – they are not equivalent issues. It is much worse for John Wayne to play Genghis Khan than some Japanese guy to play Julius Caesar in my view.

Are you also telling me that infallible Korea never casts Koreans for non-Korean roles?

Then there's the matter of will Japanese audiences to see casts not filled with Japanese actors?

How many non-Asians even live in Japan?
How many are actors?
How many are good actors?
How many are good actors who speak good enough Japanese to be comprehended without subtitles?