TLDR: Japanese don't care about who acts in the movie or who makes it because they know that people who works on the film just don't matter in terms of misinterpretation. 

Hello I'm… you can call me whatever you want. I don't care. I'm a Japanese person and forgot to design my Japanese name online so that the English community can read it easily. But I just couldn't stand being called as a slave by Yuki Matsuzaki in the following tweet so I wrote this blog of sort.

Let me translate this tweet by Yuki Matsuzaki, main advocate to introducing political correctness to Japanese films on Twitter. "Japanese people don't care when Hollywood makes weird 'Japan' in its films therefore they don't boycott, nor doesn't effect how much money they make.  They don't complain and even will thank movie makers when there is a shitty portrayal of Japan like in 'Bullet Train' starring Brad Pitt.  That's an spirit of slaves."

Calling Japanese slaves? That's a big no-no in my book. Also, let me start off with an Internet novel called Ninja Slayer, which portrays Japan in completely wrong ways yet succeeded in making it entertaining to Japanese. So, that makes it very difficult to tell if that portrayal of Japan, even if it IS misinterpreted, is good or bad. Wrong portrayal of something just doesn't always end in disaster as much as Yuki likes to believe. Misinterpretation may evolve a new style of culture. And by limiting how culture evolves, culture will die out because of stalemate. 

In Japan, there is a lot of live action interpretation of anime/manga. And let me tell you, I feel like about 90% of it has famous and respectable actors and film directors, and come out as an complete piece of dogshit. Like they didn't read source materials enough, or they just cheap out on VFX or sound, or literally anything that makes film bad happens in those 90%. Oh, let me mention this includes Hollywood films, a lot of it comes out pretty bad. But I don't think they should be eliminated in any means. Its because I know that the majority of the biological evolution is, as much as I hate to say, a failure and failing in making a successful film is easy yet will teach you a lesson on succeeding later. Maybe they didn't have enough time to read source materials, or source materials were so huge that they may not know some existed, or not enough money to make good VFX and sound, or had a worst sponsor in the world. 

So, having a respectable people in making films don't do justice, then what makes good interpretation or remakes? Honestly, I don't know. People often say "Respect to the source material" or "How much film makers love the source material" is important and as much as I'd like to agree to it, it is pretty tough to exactly quantify how much "respect" or "love" they have to the source material and set a bar to it which won't make it a good metric. 

But, using the time and money to make film politically correct, which won't make film more interesting in any way, just keep people obsessed with the concept less angry, will hinder how much fun it would provide because the time and money used to make the movie politically correct is time and money NOT used to make the movie good. They could've used that time and money on reading the source material, discussing how they would portray something, hire an better VFX artist or sound designer, or not get the worst sponsor in the world. The list on how to make the movie good goes on.

Racism is a really tough matter to deal with. I'm not in any way pro-racism. But I don't think every single piece of the entertainment should include a message to anti-racism. Or by having a film that portrays the racism, people should think about how they deal with the racism. And by making the films "politically correct", or by making racism hard to see because the characters and races are all mixed up, the problem of the racism will just be covered up. I personally had both good and bad experience with stereotypes when I was in the US. Calling the bad experience I had as racism is easy, but it won't make racist thoughts go away. We need a better approach than ripping majority's role off and duct tape it on to minority. Also, I believe the experience that actors go through to be a person of different race, gender, and anything that makes the role unique, is THE essence of acting. Therefore, by robbing the actors from the experience that they may had being another selves, they might not be supportive to the minority from deep within their heart if otherwise have had. Stereotypes, when done wrong, will cause racism and is a problem, but when done right, stereotypes will be a nice ice breaker that is good for transcultural, transracial, or even trans-anything communication. If that stereotype that you were talking to used was toxic to you, then tell them to stop. If you were told to stop with the stereotypical communication, then just stop and apologize. 

And I think cancelling people out of their jobs is also a big problem with racism. It is really hard to admit that you had some racist thoughts when there is literally a gun pointing right at your head and if you admit that you had racist thought, the trigger will be pulled. Cancelling is like that, except for the fact that the gun won't shoot peoples but cuts out the career, which is pretty much a gunshot. And in order to end the racism, people should be able to admit that he/she had a racist thought. Recent trend of cancelling just makes it difficult with the fear of pretty much being publicly hung to death if you were a racist. In the old Japan, there was a Buddhist saying that roughly localizes to "There is a bad person that goes to the heaven, why not the good people?". And this means that the bad person has to admit that the person made mistakes or committed a sin in order to be a bad person, therefore a bad person shall always go to heaven. And with old Buddhism in Japan roughly said everyone go to heaven if you prayed to Buddha, good people, or ones that did not admit their mistakes or sin, should also be allowed to go to heaven in afterlife because Buddha is that good. And as a side note this is why Christianity did not spread well in Japan because the Buddhism in Japan was way more forgiving than Christianity. Buddhism, especially beliefs that allowed pretty much everyone to go to "heaven" was way too good for Japanese people to pass up. 

The problem is, that the wave of cancelling is on its way to Japan. But instead of racism, Japanese cancels people for sexist thoughts.  And I believe that those kinds of forceful approach won't solve the problem, it will just make it hard to see the problem within. So that's why in Japan, when there is a evidence of fraudulent accounting on government funded feminist organization, only person that dares to investigate is a man that is already retired with a lot of money in his bank account so that no one can cancel him out.

Thanks for reading this blog of sort. Please share this to draw more publicity to the problem of seemingly never-ending racism and sexism.