Asian Stereotypes

After reading the ABC article about Bruce Lee, I started thinking about Hollywood movies with Asian actors and realized there really aren't any popular movies where Asian characters aren't portrayed as something other than fighters.

I asked my husband to randomly name movies with Asian actors/actresses. Here is what he came up with:

• Romeo must die
• Charlies Angels
• Rush Hour
• Enter the dragon
• Live free or die Hard
• The Last Samurai

In all these movies, the characters portrayed know martial arts. I then asked him if he could name a movie where the Asian character didn't know martial arts. The only one he could come up with, after a few minutes was "Memoirs of a Geisha".