Cyberpunk was born at a time in America where there was rising fears of a Japanese economic takeover of the world. This and general anti-Asian sentiment in the West is a fundamental part of the building blocks of the Cyberpunk genre. Neuromance, Blade Runner and the Cyberpunk tabletop are part of the foundation and all exhibit these qualities to different degrees.
While there has been much in the genre to address this or at least divulge away from these tropes (Blade Runner 2049 swaps the East Asian aesthetic for Eastern Europe) the genre still can't get away from it - and the worst example in a while has to be Gareth Edwards' latest film 'The Creator'.
Set in a war between the USA and New Asia (which might as well be called The Orient), the film shows the very worst of Cyberpunk generations and dehumanisation of Asian peoples that feature so heavily in the genre.
.00:00:00 - The Creator continues a bad trend
00:04:40 - My love for Cyberpunk and my travels to SE Asia
00:09:05 - Orientalism and Cyberpunk
00:12:55 - The Xenophobia and anti-Japanese sentiment of Cyberpunk
00:17:45 - The Orientalism of The Creator
00:24:54 - The Creator's confused anti-imperialist politics and the Vietnam War
00:30:40 - How this is dehumanising
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