Yellow Face

Why just pick out one example? Many years later, Peter Sellers did it in "Murder by Death."

R1, you are right. I just used this one as an example because I’ve recently discovered it.

There’s plenty of things going on now in our culture that will seem offensive to people 75 years from now.

There is a documentary about this called Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood.

R4, are you OP?

R5, no.

Who?

[quote] There’s plenty of things going on now in our culture that will seem offensive to people 75 years from now.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Kate Hepburn in Dragon Seed. The cheekbones were thought to make it work.

OP, Tony Randall's Dr. Lao is not nearly as offensive as Rooney's Mr. Yunioshi. Dr. Lao is a noble, fantastical character, full of wisdom and life lessons. Mr. Yunioshi, with his buck teeth, coke bottle glasses and mangled English ("Miss Gorightry, I protest!") is the Western world's racist caricature of Japanese men, frequently used to express anti-Japanese sentiment during WW2.

Stop trying to make Yellow Face happen.

It's already happened.

{{{ Robert Donat, sitting quietly in a corner, hoping no one looks his way }}}

Bette Davis as Madame Sin.

Racism that occurred sixty years ago MUST. BE. STOPPED!

Asians hate blacks and still do blackface. Spare us.

How do we feel about brown-face?

Of course I did yellow as well.

Anything in the 21st century?

Sum Ting Wong

R16- Blacks most certainly HATE Asians

Yes.... But everyone liked Tony Randall.

Elder abuse!

Scarlett Johansson in “Ghost in the Shell”

Cue the Yellow Skin Troll!

Mark-Paul Gosselaar is reverse yellow face.

Let’s not forget Sean Connery in yellow face in the Bond film You Only Live Twice. He actually looks like a Vulcan from Star Trek but iwas undercover as a Japanese fisherman.

R12, that book is excellent!

[quote] Cosmopolitan Pleasures and Affects; Or Why Are We Still Talking about Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Cinema?