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I'm gonna be honest, I'm super surprised that this is getting a remake.

The "mighty whitey" trope has been disparaged for decades now. I see both sides of the argument, honestly. It's racist to have a white dude walk into a foreign country and suddenly become Superman. It's also kind of racist to say that you can only ever be a hero to your own people.

I guess the truth of the matter is that mainstream audiences still won't watch movies with all-Asian casts, so we need a white samurai to be the lead even in the 2020s. If it's done well, it's done well. At least a white sailor washed ashore in Japan is the premise and they're not inserting him into a preexisting Japanese story.