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why is a japense guy playing a chines man's brother? RH3


RH3 makes me SICK. For a few reasons. Kenji is supposed to be Lee's brother? Lee is chinese and Kenji is Japanese... no explination for it...

Do you really think all asian people look alike?
THIS WAS TERRIBLE

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Are you seriously that incompetent?
RH3 was a terrible movie, alright. But Jackie Chan expressly said that Kenji was supposed to be an orphan from Tokio, adopted by his family. Hence they can perfectly well be "brothers". So, it is NOT that the "stupid western people" who made this movie think that "all asian people look alike" (like you imply). Rather YOU immediately label them with this boring stereotype without getting your facts right. How very lame.

Frasier: Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a man now dead?

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You are an idiot, Jackie says his family was killed by Yakuza (spelling?) in Tokyo. And in the film they speak Japanese to each other.

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Right spelling!

I have to admit, I don't understand why they speak Japanese (apart from the fact that it is prettier than any other Asian language I have heard). Sanada-san is apparently very good at learning his lines in other languages phonetically (from his time in films like Royal Warriors and The Promise). But perhaps Jackie Chan speaks Japanese already? Regardless, they have known each other for 20 years, so...

I liked their chemistry. Awful script, but hey, they tried. I was disappointed with the action though. Sanada-san is so skilled, as is Jackie Chan, but the martial arts bit was rather boring.

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