There should be more interracial onscreen pairings like this

I agree completely!! There are far too many amazingly good looking and talented male Asian actors that SHOULD be leading men in Hollywood films, but Hollywood GROSSLY misuses the talents of many excellent Asian actors. (Personally, I'd rather see Andy Lau as a leading man than Brad Pitt) As a white female that has always been attracted to Asian men, I could definitely handle seeing more Asian Male/White Female pairings. You really don't see them in HK cinema either. Definitely a shame.

In The Guru, Heather Graham gets married to an Indian man. In Snows Falling on Cedar, a Japanese-American had an affair with a married White woman. In The Chippendale Murders, an Indian businessman marries a White woman (it's a true-to-life story, though).

Nobody finds the demand for White Male/Asian Female pairings odd, but when an Asian guy shows their interest in seeing more Asian Male/White Female pairings in a thread like this, they are automatically accused of "looking for validation." I don't see anyone accusing white men of "looking for obsequious companionship" when they have a preference in Asian women, so what gives here?

Personally, I prefer Asian guys over white guys. It is just a preference of mine for a number of reasons (physically, mentally, etc.). I like to see AM/WF pairings in books, movies, etc. for this reason. It isn't just Asian guys who want to see these sorts of pairings. You're not Freud, so stop coming to premature assumptions about why people have the racial preferences that they do.

Apart from that... I agree with the topic starter in that I wish there were more interracial couples (of all ethnicities) in film.

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modern hollywood loves to play the asian female stereotypes - dragon lady, submissive, obedient while condone much more on how 'oriental' describes the best as 'the otherness', the opposite of western.This misconception is very damaging to asian community especially asian american in order to identify themselves as an asian american.No wonder, you have all the term of twinkie or white wannabe while dissing asian culture while competiting with each other just to feel socially accepted by white people.

Usually, it is very easy for asian female to be casted in a movie to play certain roles that fits the stereotypes. Either from Lucy Liu becoming a dragon lady in Charlie's Angels(sadly,she requested that her dad in the movie to be a white male, instead asian male) to Madame butterfly or even the JoyClub on how asian males are potrayed as sexist while white males are the savior of asian females who are despair and socially dysfunctional.

I just think hollywood loves to play downright stereotypes of how asian should be and how asian males are being emasculated with such depictions of long duck dong to william hung.While white man is easily to have romantic scene with asian female(not just asian,any races actually), asian males, though, are paired with the ladies, hardly ever, get the chance to be depicted as a masculine, attainable heroes.

It is kinda sad,colonized mentality misguides people.

There are great choices of films.

Hiroshima mon amour was written by Marguerite Duras, beautiful and deep film.


Another film with AM/WF

Little Fish (2005).

I agree! I'm a very white American woman, fair skinned, light green eyes but dark hair; I was married to a Chinese man in Beijing, and was always getting comments from both Chinese and Americans about it. I spoke Mandarin fairly fluently and could understand the comments, usually sexual questions, of the cabbies and such. Some people thought he was my tour guide because he was a a couple of inches shorter and some pounds lighter than me. My American friends could not understand why I would want to marry a Chinese man. I had my share of Chinese lovers before him, as well, and I think it would be a very interesting and sensuous paring on film to have a white woman and a Chinese/Japanese/or Asian man.

I think the reason you don't see it more on film is because, at least in the U.S., Asian men, because of their generally smaller size/height than Western men, are simply not perceived as "manly"--this is narrow-minded and simplistic, but that is what I've seen and heard. Western men are generally taller, more hairy, bigger built, and thus seem more masculine to Western women. I had no problem finding quite masculine and skilled lovers in China, some of them very tall, muscular and damned good looking,and really, I think the only way to change the current thinking is to show a white woman with an attractive, masculine-looking Asian man in popular films. I'd take Chow Yun Fat ANY day over Brad Pitt!