CATDOLL: No white people! Scarlett Johansson's role as Kusanagi Motoko in Ghost in the Shell sparks racial debate

Recently, the news that Scarlett Johansson will play the role of Kusanagi Motoko in the live-action version of the classic animation "Ghost in the Shell" has sparked heated discussions both at home and abroad. This is her second time playing an action heroine after "The Avengers" and "Lucy". If you think everyone is happy to see Scarlett in a sexy tights again, you are wrong.

Fans of the original work were not excited about Scarlett playing this unique character. The reason is that "Ghost in the Shell" tells a story that takes place in the future Japan, and Scarlett's character Kusanagi Motoko is a Japanese woman. After we confirmed again, Scarlett is not Japanese. (Laughs)

In the original work, Kusanagi Motoko is a completely Asian character.

Naturally, there was strong opposition on Twitter to Hollywood's forced "whitewashing" of classic anime characters. Before this, there were precedents of white people playing yellow characters such as Son Goku in "Dragon Ball" and Aang in "Avatar: The Last Airbender". Even if Scarlett Johansson, who is now as popular as ever, is popular again, is there no more suitable Asian to play Kusanagi Motoko? I believe that others are not necessarily worse than her in fighting in tights? One netizen joked: "Maybe all Asian actors alive are too busy."

In the Hollywood version of Dragon Ball released in 2009, Sun Wukong also became a white man

Someone recommended Rinko Kikuchi, who starred in Pacific Rim, to play Kusanagi Motoko.