Throughout Asian American movies I enjoyed, I noticed that most of Asian American movies are starred by male leading roles. Obviously, we know a handful of recognizable young Asian American leading men working in Hollywood movies and rarely know an Asian American leading women. Regardless to say, we know so much about Chinese Kung-Fu in films through Jackie Chan, Yun-Fat Chow, Jet Lee; however, they were born and grown up in the U.S, therefore I don’t think that they can be count as Asian America actors.
Ken Watanabe— born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan starred in Inception (2010), Shanghai (2010), Letters from Iwo Jima (2007), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Batman Begins (2005), and so on. John Cho—from Seoul, South Korea was playing as the young Mr. Sulu in Star Trek. Justin Chon played Peter Wu in the Disney Channel Film “Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior”, and also acted in Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Stephen Chow has announced as a Hong Long action star from “The Green Hornet” movie. There are at least 10 Asian leading actors that I have seen popularly in American movies. Yet, where are Asian leading actresses?
As another famous Kung-Fu artist, Michelle Yeoh starred with Yun-Fat Chow in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; with Jet Li in The Mummy 2 and 3, with Jackie Chan in SuperCop, and with Ziyi Zhang in Memoirs of a Geisha, and et cetera.
As I mentioned above about the overflow and dominance of Asian American leading actors in Hollywood, the Asian American actresses seem to be in the shadow. Mostly I have seen that these actresses usually appear to co-op with other leading male actor as a love interest or supporting male leading. For example, in Lust, Caution, Wei Tang won the Independent Spirit Awards as the Best Female Lead nominee with Tony Leung Chiu Wai as the Best Male Lead nominee. The film itself typically appeals as a pornographic drama movie that assigns strong sexual content, erotic, sitcom-style innuendo. The movement of the movie is quite slow and the physical violence of the intercourse is disturbing. The position of Wei Tang as Yee— an enthusiastic student, who start identifying with the rebellious college group, was coming from desperation and powerlessness.
Again, where can I find Asian American actresses appear without man’s shadow and sexuality?
You have an interesting spin on this position, but I am not sure that your information is 100% correct. Michelle Yeoh was only in "The Mummy 3" not #2. And Steven Chow was in "Kung Fu Hustle" not "The Green Hornet"; that was Jay Chou. To help with facts like this use the Internet Movie Database to look up films and actors. It's URL is www.imdb.com
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