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Originally Posted by Giccin
"Han" irl isn't Japanese... But is Korean.
Han in the movie is portrayed as Japanese character. Although... he looks nothing Japanese. ;o
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No he's not, he's always been Korean. In Tokyo Drift, he talks about Tokyo being his "Mexico," and he's never been identified as being Japanese. He just lived there after the events of the previous movies (in the timeline).
In Fast Five when he (and the other people in their crew) had been identified by The Rock, his name shows up as "Han Seoul-Oh," which is a bit Korean-ish (and a pun on Han Solo from Star Wars).
I think Jeremy Lin has enough integrity to be accurate in certain portrayals (as in the Tokyo Drift behind-the-scenes/director's commentary he talks about having met with actual Yakuza members to figure out how to portray them accurately) and probably won't be casting Asian guys to play a completely different Asian nationality (unless it's one where they are truly similar in appearance without being obvious to Asian people, like in the first one where they had a Korean and a Filipino both portraying Chinese people).