But whatever momentum his achievements created are largely gone now, unlike someone like Ricardo Montalban, who made a similar effort for Latino actors and had community support to sustain it (and even then, Latino actors are *still* underrepresented in TV/Film anyway).

Err, Hollywood has been marginalizing Asian actors and pushing them to the side for over 100 years. Part of it is because of Asian actors from long ago were happy with what little "victories" they could get, rather than campaigning and organizing for better treatment and representation. After all, no one should ruffle…

Not quite right. You have two of the most famous Chinese action stars together for the first time, but they're forced to take a back seat to a nameless white kid. Jackie Chan and Jet Li couldn't even tell the legend from their homeland without being supporting characters. They were the main draw for audiences, and…

On the contrary, it's 46 Japanese actors who couldn't be trusted by an American studio to tell a Japanese story. It's the same thing with the Last Samurai, where the story is supposed to be about a Japanese man but it's still framed through a white guy, or The Impossible, a story about the gigantic tsunami hitting…