No list about racebending would be complete without this unfortunate stain on an otherwise classic movie. Mickey Rooney’s portrayal of Mr. Yunioshi is without parallel in most of cinema history.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Cinema
Jackie Brown
After the runaway success of Pulp Fiction everyone was wondering what Quentin Tarentino would do next. What he did was take a novel called Rum Punch, change the race of most of the characters and some of the plot, and turn it into a homage to Blaxploitation films.
21
Perhaps by wanting to avoid stereotyping Asian-Americans as really good at math, the producers of 21 just got rid of them all together.