All the black actors and actresses playing historically white characters in comics should be called 'blackwashing' by that logic, what a travesty! This is an American film, using a bankable American star, being targeted at an American audience and America doesn't have a homogeneous Japanese population. Stop virtue signalling with this new word of the week.


If you look at the actual story, it's even explained why Johansson was willing to play the role: "The Major is a cyborg and her physical form is an entirely assumed one. The name ‘Motoko Kusanagi’ and her current body are not her original name and body, so there is no basis for saying that an Asian actress must portray her", and “I don’t think it was just a Japanese story. Ghost in the Shell was a very international story, and it wasn’t just focused on Japanese; it was supposed to be an entire world.”