Asian American Empowerment

8 1/2 Women
Description: Simato (Shizuka Inoh) is a Japanese woman so addicted to the Pachinko games found in a Kyoto casino that she'll trade sex with Storey (Matthew Delaware) for credit.
Added on: 28-Dec-2003 Hits: 2025 Rating: 1 (9 Votes)
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Abby
Description: There is a Chinese female/African male couple played by Carol Greenwell (Suzy Nakamura) and Ted (Jason Winston George). When they are having relationship problems, Ted gets friendly with Abby (Sydney Tamiia Poitier, a mulatto) to spite Carol. Carol sees this and reacts by grabbing the rear of Abby's black boyfriend Will (Kadeem Hardison) and then says in a sultry voice, "Call me," showing that she only goes for black males. This scene transpires at a funeral for Carol's Aunt Gertrude. Will makes Chinese noises which passes as slight comedy, and Ted and Carol go to China. Ted also sleeps with Carol's cousin and their therapist but she still stays with him long enough to take him to China.
Added on: 02-May-2004 Hits: 1555 Rating: 6 (1 Vote)
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Accidental Stripper Popular

Description: Asian female stripper Candace (Akira Lane) falls for and has sex with the white DJ in an unmotivated romance.
Added on: 05-Dec-2003 Hits: 8608 Rating: 7 (4 Votes)
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Across the Pacific
Description: Humphrey Bogart comments that the "Japanese make great servants.''
Added on: 09-Jun-2003 Hits: 1787
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Adventures of Fu Manchu, The
Description: Manchu was an evil oriental scientific genius operating out of Macao whose nefarious goals included the destruction of western democracy. The series was based on the character created by novelist Sax Rohmer in the early 1900s.
Added on: 04-Mar-2005 Hits: 1369
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After MASH
Description: Klinger's wife Soon-Lee plays the Asian War Bride, the ideal companion or wife to white American males who prefer "traditional" women untainted by such quaint notions as gender equality. Like its predecessor, MASH, After MASH exploits the historical experience of Asians caught in the vise of American militarism by implying that their lives have actually been bettered by the invasion, occupation and destruction of their native countries.
Added on: 06-Jun-2003 Hits: 2598
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Alias
Description: In Season One, a recurring character billed as the "Taiwanese Torturer" (Ric Young) ends up crying like a baby, while a younger white female (Sydney) is shown to have a higher tolerance for pain.
Added on: 28-Dec-2003 Hits: 1387 Rating: 1 (1 Vote)
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Alice
Description: In Woody Allen's 1990 movie Alice, we find the symbol of the Oriental Monk in its crudest form: Allen ironically employs stereotypical "oriental" music and opium den darkness to situate Dr. Yang. Even though Dr. Yang's chain-smoking, caustic persona can be read subversively, he and Chinatown still signal in the viewer's mind Alice's entry into an alternative sense of self. For all the seeming self-reflexivity demonstrated in Allen's ironic invocation of the Oriental Monk figure, Dr. Yang remains merely a symbolic device in the larger plot of Alice's transformation, made productive by a still unchallenged orientalist network of associations. (Source: Jane Naomi Iwamura, "The Oriental Monk in American Popular Culture," Religion and Popular Culture in American, ed. by Forbes and Mahan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 33.)
Added on: 09-Jun-2003 Hits: 1462
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All-American Girl
Description: Margaret Cho, in All-American Girl, attempted to celebrate the Americanization of Asians. She tried to use the fact that we still see humor in people with Asian faces having American manners to her advantage. Many of the gags and jokes played off this breed of humor. Unfortunately, the fact that we find it funny implies that we still don't really accept it. Thus the audience is unlikely to come to care about these characters the way they do about the characters in a successful sitcom. All-American Girl went off the air after one season of poor ratings.
Added on: 09-Jun-2003 Hits: 1804
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Ally McBeal
Description: Lucy Liu plays a dragon lady-like lawyer who has a romance with a white lawyer (Greg Germann) from her firm. There are no Asian male lawyers anywhere in the show.
Added on: 25-Jun-2003 Hits: 2099 Rating: 6 (2 Votes)
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