Japan and Hong Kong, are in fact, 2 different asian places.

did anyone else notice that when the departed screenwriter won for best adapted screenplay, the voiceover said that it was based on the japanese screenplay written by felix chong and alan mok. can 2 asian names sound LESS JAPANESE and MORE HONG KONGESE (if thats even a word, and it should be). that was just blatant ignorance. for a remake of a HK movie, which wasn't even up for best foreign film oscar back in 2002, to win the best picture oscar this year, reflects the true, sad, unoriginal state of american motion pictures.

kudos to marty scorcese for finally winning an oscar. by biting an asian movie. haha. indeed.