Some people argue that Cyberpunk movies are better than those, “We don’t discriminate against Asian culture,” they said. “In fact, it is completely opposite! We all love Asian culture so much, and we are putting Asian culture everywhere in the movies!” However, that is not the case.
The fact that loving a certain culture does not make you justified to appropriate that culture in any way. In an often cited example of Avril Lavigne’s Hello Kitty song, she explained that she loves Japanese culture and she “flew to Tokyo to shoot this video [...] specifically for my Japanese fans, with my Japanese label, Japanese choreographers and a Japanese director in Japan."\cite{culture} In the music video, Avril Lavigne is wearing cute outfit in a pink room. In the room, there are Pokemon and Hello Kitty side by side, however, they have no relation at all. The only common point shared by Pokemon and Hello Kitty is they all came from Japan. However, this is still cultural misappropriation. If Avril really loves Japanese culture, she should have understand the cultural meaning behind Japanese brands, not just randomly put things together.
This is why even though Cyberpunk fans and writers state that they love Asian culture, the misappropriation in these Cyberpunk movies are also marginalizing Asian culture, just in a different way than before.
It is hard to categorize the type of misappropriation, but generally there are three kinds of misuse in Cyberpunk. The first one is having many Asian cultural reference but reduce the cultural depth into merely decoration, and the second one is fail to understand different Asian cultures separately and strengthening stereotypes. The last one is What is common is the three ways is they both use Asian culture as decoration without truly understand the spirit and meaning of it, creating a disconnect between the appearance of the artifact and the actual culture.
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In both Blade Runner movies, there are Asian cultural influence everywhere in the movie. The city itself looks like a mixture of Tokyo and Hong Kong, and there are Japanese characters on the banners everywhere. Every sentences seem to be bilingual, even the police tapes appeared in Blade Runner 2049 is bilingual. Despite the fact, there don’t seem to be any Japanese actors  in the movie. The purpose of those Japanese words are purely decorative.
In most Cyberpunk movies, the cities seem to be a mixture of multiple different Asian cities, yet take place in the United States. For example, according to the author, the city in Ghost in the Shell is a mixture of Hong Kong and Tokyo, two of the most crowded cities in the world. Those city are most memorable for the vertical sign boards and neon lights, as well as street vendors and raining weather. In fact, the whole Blade Runner movie took place in a huge rain. On the eye-catching neon lights and signs, we can see words in many different languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.