Examples of yellowface
Year Title Actor ( s ) Director Notes
2005 Little Britain Matt Lucas as Ting Tong Macadangdang Declan Lowney Matt Lucas plays Ting Tong , a kathoey mail-order bride . The character repeats such catchphrases as Please Mr. Dudley ! ( in a stereotypical accent ) My name Ting Tong , Ting Tong Macadangdang . Did you have good time ? The character also appeared in Little Britain Abroad ( 2006 )
2005 We Can Be Heroes : Finding The Australian of the Year Chris Lilley as Ricky Wong We Can Be Heroes : Finding The Australian of the Year is an Australian Television series , Ricky Wong is a 23-year-old Chinese physics student who lives in the suburb of Wheelers Hill , Melbourne , Victoria . He is often exuberant and tells his colleagues that Physics is Phun and that they are in the Wong laboratory . This character is largely a vehicle for parodying the stereotypical Chinese overachiever , or model migrant
2006 Cloud 9 Paul Rodriguez as Mr. Wong Cloud 9
2007 Balls of Fury Christopher Walken as Feng Ben Garant Feng is a parody of the yellow peril and Fu Manchu stereotype
2007 Norbit Eddie Murphy as Mr. Wong Brian Robbins For his portrayal Eddie Murphy received a Golden Raspberry Award . Worst Supporting Actor ( Eddie Murphy ; as Mr. Wong )
2007 Grindhouse Nicolas Cage as Dr. Fu Manchu Rob Zombie Fake Trailer : Werewolf Women of the SS
2007 I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry Rob Schneider as the Asian minister and photographer Dennis Dugan Although Schneider is one-fourth Filipino by descent , the use of prosthetics for his role were criticised as an offensive stereotype . Nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor but lost to Eddie Murphy
2008 My Name Is Bruce Ted Raimi as Wing Bruce Campbell
2009 Crank : High Voltage David Carradine as Poon Dong Neveldine/Taylor Poon Dong , played by David Carradine , is the head of the Chinese Triad . In Crank : High Voltage . The name of the character is a pun , being both a stereotypical Chinese-sounding name and slang for genitalia
2009 Chanel - Paris - Shanghai A Fantasy - The Short Movie Freja Beha , Baptiste Giabiconi Karl Lagerfeld Karl Lagerfeld Opened His Pre-Fall Show in Shanghai With a Film That Included Yellow Face . Lagerfeld defended this as a reference to old films . It is an homage to Europeans trying to look Chinese , he explained . Like in The Good Earth , the people in the movie liked the idea that they had to look like Chinese . Or like actors in Madame Butterfly . People around the world like to dress up as different nationalities . It is about the idea of China , not the reality . Chinese persons played the maid , a courtesan and background characters
2009 Hanger Wade Gibb as Russell Ryan Nicholson A black comedy in which a Chinese man with Down syndrome is portrayed by a White actor under heavy prosthetics and make-up
2010-2011 Come Fly with Me David Walliams and Matt Lucas as Asuka and Nanako Paul King Walliams and Lucas play two Japanese girls who have flown to the airport to see their idol , Martin Clunes
2012 Cloud Atlas Jim Sturgess , Hugo Weaving , Halle Berry , Hugh Grant , James D'Arcy , and Keith David Lana and Lilly Wachowski A significant number of cast members applied makeup , focusing mostly on the eyes , to make their features appear more Korean/East Asian in one of the film 's stories . The film is based on the idea of having the same actors reappear in different roles in six different story lines , one of which is set in 'Neo Seoul ' in the year 2144 . The film thus also has Asian actresses Bae Doona and Zhou Xun appear in non-Asian roles , and African-American actress Halle Berry portrayed a white character . Blackface is not used in the film , however
2013 The Walking Dead : A Hardcore Parody Danny Wylde as Glenn Rhee Danny Wylde A pornographic parody of The Walking Dead , controversy erupted over the character Glenn being portrayed by a White actor under heavy make-up and prosthetics
2013 Pacific Rim Clifton Collins Jr. as Tendo Choi Guillermo Del Toro Mexican-American actor Clifton Collins Jr. portrays in yellowface a Chinese-American character Tendo Choi the Jaeger technician . Collins has been quoted describing his character as the Brains behind the Jaegers
2014 How I Met Your Mother Cobie Smulders , Alyson Hannigan , Josh Radnor Season 9 , Episode 14 Slapsgiving 3 : Slappointment in Slapmarra ; main cast dressed as Asian martial arts masters using stereotypical garb , makeup , and offensive Fu Manchu moustache
2015 Aloha Emma Stone as Alison Ng Cameron Crowe
2016 Absolutely Fabulous : The Movie Janette Tough as Huki Muki Mandie Fletcher
21st century
Examples of yellowface include the portrayal of East Asians in American film and theater and other Western media. It used to be the norm in Hollywood that Asian characters were played by white actors, often using makeup to approximate East Asian facial characteristics, a practice known as yellowface. Media portrayals of East Asians have reflected a dominant Americentric perception rather than realistic and authentic depictions of true cultures, customs and behaviors. Yellowface relies on stereotypes of East Asians.