I hope they use Kawai the whole way through the film, just like Akira, the sound is crucial to creating that atmosphere.

Is it NSFW if the boobs are supposed just LOOK real?

I haven't seen a bootleg cam version of a movie like this in ages. A dying art I tell you. Just watch for people getting up in front of you and ruining the shot.

Yeah, I can't imagine we would be offended if the situation were reversed, like if the Japanese film industry cast Japanese actors in an adaptation of Shakespeare, that would be expected.

Plus, it's difficult to make the case that Motoko even has a race any more. She is the brain of a Japanese woman in a prosthetic body. One she didn't choose to look Japanese, rather a sort of ostentatious athlete/sex doll look with red eyes and blue hair. Basically no one looks like that, but Scarlet Johnson pulls it off as well as anyone could.

Now if they had gone with the ARISE timeline, an Asian actress would embody that incarnation perfectly.