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04-20-2008, 12:17 AM | #1 |
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Gerald Okamura
http://www.geraldokamura.com/ I read it in "Inside Kung Fu" magazine. He's closely affiliated with them, so they're probably right. |
04-20-2008, 12:21 AM | #2 |
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I met him once. He is very good. I did picture him playing the Hard Master after one of the other people said his name starts with a "G".
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04-20-2008, 11:40 PM | #3 |
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Geez, that guys the villain in what seems to be every movie that even has a hint of martial arts! Despite that comment i have no prob. with him in G.I. Joe.
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04-21-2008, 02:18 AM | #4 |
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Oh, looky - they got a Japanese guy to play the leader of the Arashikage Clan.
LOL From what I hear though, Byung Hun Lee is popular in Japan as well as here in Korea. So from what I can fathom, the Storm Shadow story is about this Korean guy Tommy tracing his mixed heritage back to Japan (check history, closeby Japan occupied Korea for a long time) and trains under Hard Master who I forget, was he his uncle? |
04-24-2008, 12:53 AM | #5 |
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check your facts ( hardmaster WAS his uncle, as was Hardmaster's brother, the Soft Master )...
tommy arashikage, the korean, traces his lineage to the arashikage ninja clan...japanese ninja clan, who was sooooo successful that they sold the old dojo, and moved to Vietnam...outsourcing, probably due to lower production cost. yeah, that's it. |
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04-25-2008, 01:48 PM | #6 |
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Do we have any kind of confirmation that the Storm Shadow 'character' is Korean here? Sure, the actor playing him might be Korean, but they're Asians, so I don't think anybody would throw a fit if he were portraying a Japanese guy. This isn't me being a racist or anything, it's Hollywood thinking--similarly, would anyone throw a fit over a Canadian playing an American?
Now, if we've been *told* that Storm Shadow Is Korean, then disregard this entirely. |
04-25-2008, 01:55 PM | #7 |
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Hollywood hasn't cared about asian ethnicities since it's inception. I seem to recall the same actors playing Chinese, Japanese, and even Indian parts. I have no problem with this personally, but I can understand the bad feelings this might cause within asian communities. Afterall, nothing pisses me off more than to see some Cannuck pretending to be an American.
First they replace all our stand-up comedians, then our sit-coms, and now every TV show in "Hollywood" is produced in frikken Canada. (I kid of course )
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04-25-2008, 01:58 PM | #8 |
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Do we have any kind of confirmation that the Storm Shadow 'character' is Korean here? Sure, the actor playing him might be Korean, but they're Asians, so I don't think anybody would throw a fit if he were portraying a Japanese guy. This isn't me being a racist or anything, it's Hollywood thinking--similarly, would anyone throw a fit over a Canadian playing an American?
Now, if we've been *told* that Storm Shadow Is Korean, then disregard this entirely. Um. The differences between Korean and Japanese people are, I'm mostly guessing here, far more vast and complex than those between Americans and Canadians, who have not in recent memory been at war (I mean, War of 1812, and then there were some Irish veterans of the Civil War with a half-cocked scheme to invade Canada as a means of pressuring the British...but that's hardly the same thing) and have never really been terribly antagonistic. In fact, we more or less depend on each other for trade. I think saying "it won't matter if a Japanese character is played by a Korean actor, because they're both Asian" is in fact quite racist, but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt for saying that you think that's how Hollywood is approaching it.
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05-03-2008, 07:07 PM | #9 |
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Hey, I can care less about how racist I sound, but Korean Guy looks suitably like Storm Shadow to me.
And nobody answered my question--do we know that it's Storm Shadow's 'character' that's Korean, or are we assuming this because the actor is? |
05-03-2008, 08:36 PM | #10 |
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And nobody answered my question--do we know that it's Storm Shadow's 'character' that's Korean, or are we assuming this because the actor is?
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