After thirty five years of waiting, the sequel of Blade Runner movie finally comes out in 2017. Behind the stunning and beautiful visual effects of Blade Runner 2049, we not only see many futuristic technology, but also lots of Asian culture reference appears. Multilingual signs with Chinese or Korean are everywhere, advertisement with Japanese element such as geisha floating in the sky. However, these Asian culture does not seems to have anything to do with the movie itself other than just adding the aesthetic to it. This has become the normal for Cyberpunk movies. Cyberpunk genre tend to appropriate Asian culture in a misleading way, not only fail to differentiate distinct culture, but also enforcing white supremacy and reduce the depth of Asian culture.
In this essay, I am going to analyze some cyberpunk movies and point out their cultural misappropriation, and attempt to come up with a better guidelines to fuse other cultural element together.