Yellow face is when people use make up to make a 'white' person look like an Asian person. Another way yellow face is used is when a non Asian person is played the part of an Asian person. An example of this is "Ghost In The Shell", where Scarlett Johansson who is an American is playing the role of Motoko Kusanagi. You could also call this white washing as a white person is playing a part of an Asian person.
Another example of Yellow face / Whitewashing is shown in the film of 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. Where the actor Mikey Rooney played the part of a Japanese man Mr. Yunioshi. Although the producer of the film said that he did not intent to cause any racial comment, others believed that the Japanese part should be played by a Japanese person and not an American as this could be seen as offensive and racist. Later on in 2008 Rooney took an interview about, and he said "Looking back, I wish I had never done it... and I would give anything to be able to recast it, but it's there, and onward and upward." he then later on said that he wouldn't have done if he knew about how offensive it was to do this. However, before this he received good comments about his word as Mr, Yunioshi, these comments included "God, you were so funny." In his interview he said that "even Chinese and Asians" went up to him, saying that he was "out of this world".
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