![]() ![]() Unfortunately, he does too good a job with it, because Death Note takes place in a country wholly unlike our own. Still, the casual Netflix surfer who watches Death Note unaware of its history is unlikely to notice the absence of Asians other than a white American cop’s inexplicable decision to name his son “Light,” Wingard successfully erases all traces of cultural context from his film. (specifically, Seattle - where, it must be said, Asians are the second-biggest racial demographic in real life). Unlike Paramount’s Scarlett Johansson-starring flop, though, director Adam Wingard’s Death Note transplants the setting from Japan to the U.S. In translating Japanese source material for an English-language audience, Hollywood renditions have unfailingly employed white protagonists, despite the existence of English-speaking Americans of Japanese or other descents. ![]() ![]() Like fellow manga adaptation Ghost in the Shell, Netflix’s Death Note has been dogged by whitewashing criticism since castings were first announced. ![]()
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