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Monster Hunter: China pulls movie from cinemas after race row – Aljazeera.com
A line of a dialogue was termed by local social media users as racist, sparking calls for a boycott.
Monster Hunter, the fantasy action movie, has disappeared from Chinese cinemas just days after its release.
The movie, an adaption of a popular role-playing video game of the same name, premiered in China on Friday but quickly became embroiled in online controversy after a brief line of dialogue was targeted by local social media users as racist.
In the scene, a character played by Asian-American rapper and actor Jin Au-Yeung tells his companion: Look at my knees.
What kind of knees are these? asks…
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