History Main / AsianHookerStereotype

* ...an Asian woman, then things are probably a bit complicated. She has to deal with the hangups of the other categories and maybe some InternalizedCategorism.

* ''Film/WarHunt'': UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was dying in 1962 but wasn't quite dead. So this movie, set near the end of the Korean War, gets the idea across by having a very pretty Korean woman on the other side of the barbed wire say hello to Private Loomis. Then, out of the blue, she says "I love you." She follows this up by saying "You got trouble, GI? Come on, I fix!, and reassuring him "No MP!" Loomis takes a pass.

* ''Film/WrHunt'': UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was dying in 1962 but wasn't quite dead. So this movie, set near the end of the Korean War, gets the idea across by having a very pretty Korean woman on the other side of the barbed wire say hello to Private Loomis. Then, out of the blue, she says "I love you." She follows this up by saying "You got trouble, GI? Come on, I fix!, and reassuring him "No MP!" Loomis takes a pass.

In the Anglosphere, and particularly the USA, one classic stereotype of the pan-Asian women is the Asiatic prostitute. This trope is just a stereotype, mind, and it doesn't require someone actually being -- or 'believing' that someone is -- a prostitute for it to be brought up.

* Averted in ''Film/HectorAndTheSearchForHappiness'' with Ying Li, the high-end call girl that wealthy banker Edward hires to entertain his new friend Hector. Edward sets it up to make it look like Ying is just a young woman at the bar who's interested in Hector, and she's so well-spoken and refined that Hector doesn't even realize she's a prostitute until their conversation the next morning.

* Averted in ''Film/HectorAndTheSearchForHappiness with Ying Li, the high-end call girl that wealthy banker Edward hires to entertain his new friend Hector. Edward sets it up to make it look like Ying is just a young woman at the bar who's interested in Hector, and she's so well-spoken and refined that Hector doesn't even realize she's a prostitute until their conversation the next morning.

* Dr Kelso in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' frequently cheats on his wife with various prostitutes. All of them are Asian.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' had several episodes dealing with Korean "business girls".

** And heavily implied[[note]]moreso in the early seasons[[/note]] as well to any trips to Tokyo.

* ''Series/TheSopranos'': In the Film-Within-the-Show ''Film/{{Cleaver}}'', Michael's Asian-American fiancée is due to marry him in two days and is initially worried when he goes missing, but all it needs to convince her to forget about him and bang his boss is two tacky come-on lines from Sal. Notable primarily for being a RaceLift, since Adriana was white.

* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' is arguably the TropeCodifier with its infamous line "Me love you long time" (see the page pic). The second half of the movie takes place in Vietnam, yet [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15kkg8zOPQg the sex worker saying this and a few more lines]] still constitute the majority of Vietnamese characters' dialogue. Note that the soundtrack just happen to be about a woman breaking up and getting revenge. [[spoiler:The movie ends with most of the squad getting gunned down by a Vietnamese sniper -- [[SamusIsAGirl who is then revealed to be young and female]].]]

[-[[caption-width-right:350:[[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar "Me love you,]] [[TropeCodifier long time.]] [[FunetikAksent Fiftin dolla,]] [[YouNoTakeCandle me love you too much."]]]]-]

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* ''Literature/BackInTheUSSA'': In "The Teddy Bear's Picnic", which tells the story of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' in an AlternateHistory where the US went communist and the UK is the world's foremost democratic superpower, there is a Vietmanese prostitute nicknamed Vimo Vingh who services the British troops and embodies the stereotypes and dialogue of Asian hookers seen in films like ''Film.FullMetalJacket''.

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* An early subversion comes in the form of Hui Fei in ''Film/ShanghaiExpress''. She's a prostitute yes but portrayed as a HighClassCallGirl who speaks perfect English and [[spoiler: after being raped by the villain gets revenge by stabbing him in the back]]. Additionally she has a white prostitute as a companion.

* In the 1960 movie ''Film/TheWorldOfSuzieWong'', Suzie is depicted as a prostitute who falls hopelessly in love with Caucasian man who refuses to return her feelings. She's something of an UnbuiltTrope, shown to have a complicated past and is trying in fact to escape her life as a prostitute - [[spoiler: and also has a son she has to provide for]].
* Exploited in ''Film/TheFighter'', as Dicky Ecklund's girlfriend readily poses as a hooker for a scam they are running.
* At one point in ''Film/OngBak'', an Australian fighter taunts the Thai fighters claiming Thai women come to his country to become hookers because Thai men are wimps.

* In ''Film/TheBigHit'', Keiko's initial boyfriend is Caucasian. While attempting to rape her, the jerk quotes two phrases from ''Film/FullMetalJacket'': "Me sucky-sucky" and "Me love you long time". By implication calling his "girlfriend" an Asian whore.
* ''Film/FinalDestination5''. When company sleazeball Isaac enters an Asian massage parlor, it's blatantly obvious that he tries to invoke this in the douchebaggiest way possible by harassing the receptionist, complete with inquiring if there will be a "[[HappyEndingMassage happy ending]]". When the girl makes it clear that the place isn't a brothel, he still doesn't take the hint. He gets duly rewarded when the girl sets him up for an exceptionally rough massage [[SexualKarma performed by her much older mother]].
* ''Film/AbductionOfEden'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when Eden, a sex slave in a human trafficking ring, is told to play up her "Asian shtick" for some clients. She throws on a stereotypical heavy Chinese accent while wearing a bastardized qipao costume-- despite the fact that she is Korean and speaks perfect English.
-->'''Eden''': You wan take control? You wan me take control?
* ''Film/DeconstructingHarry'': While the Asian prostitute is an extreme stereotype, her attitude, personality and accent are all purely American, which probably means she's just roleplaying the Trope.
* In ''Film/{{Goldstone}}'', the Chinese girls brought in to work at the mine's brothel are instructed to act this way as it is what the men expect.
* ''Film/Da5Bloods'' has Tiên, the contact who helps the Bloods connect with Desroche, who was a prostitute during the Vietnam War who had a relationship with Otis (which ended up producing a daughter). She seems fairly well-off in present day but confides in Otis about the difficulty of living with the stigma of being a prostitute who serviced American soldiers, while also being the single mother of a black mixed-race daughter no less.

* In ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'', female Asian characters are almost always prostitutes, {{mail order bride}}s, or similar.
* Similarly, for all the Asian culture in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', the only Asian character with a speaking role is a whore.
* Dr Kelso in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' frequently cheats on his wife with various prostitutes. All of them are Asian.

-->'''Nick.''' I can't stay out too late. I'm tired.
-->'''Dorothy.''' Me too.
-->'''Nick.''' I gotta work tomorrow.
-->'''Dorothy.''' Me too.
-->'''Nick.''' As of now, I'm officially off duty.
-->'''Dorothy.''' As of now, me too.

* Inverted in the ''Series/NewGirl'' episode “No Girl”, the guys decide to turn the loft into an Airbnb while Jess is away at jury duty. One of the guests, Kumiko, is a Japanese woman whom Nick finds himself attracted to. The two of them end up having a sexual encounter. Afterwards, when he awkwardly still tries to charge her for her stay, she agrees to pay- but she thinks the reason she’s paying him is that he’s a male prostitute, or “working boy” as she calls him.

* [[WebAnimation/{{Jerry}} Jerry]]'s [[DirtyOldMan father]] is into these ([[NauseaFuel especially underage]]) and eventually [[spoiler:marries one to adopt his orphaned grandson in the finale]].

* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' is arguably the TropeCodifier with its infamous line "Me love you long time" (see the page pic). The second half of the movie takes place in Vietnam, yet [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12tce-THLUE the hooker saying this and a few more lines]] still constitute the majority of Vietnamese characters' dialogue. Note that the soundtrack just happen to be about a woman breaking up and getting revenge. [[spoiler:The movie ends with most of the squad getting gunned down by a Vietnamese sniper -- [[SamusIsAGirl who is then revealed to be young and female]].]]

* Music/SteelPanther makes no attempts to conceal that the song [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Asian Hooker" is about an Asian hooker]].

* In the chilean comic ''Me llaman Pulp!'' A group of criminals seeks to steal a loot of diamonds, one of them, Lee, of Chinese origin, pretends to be a Japanese industrialist interested in buying diamonds. When he is negotiating the seller mentions "Asian prostitutes" with contempt, Lee patiently asks him to "don't insult the women of my race", the seller, [[TooDUmbToLive with a smile, talks about how asian women]] "come happily to the west to prostitute themselves and try Caucasian penises” Lee kills him and ruins the entire operation.

* ''Film/Eden2012'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when Eden, a sex slave in a human trafficking ring, is told to play up her "Asian shtick" for some clients. She throws on a stereotypical heavy Chinese accent while wearing a bastardized qipao costume-- despite the fact that she is Korean and speaks perfect English.

* ''Film/AbductionOfEden'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when Eden, a sex slave in a human trafficking ring, is told to play up her "Asian shtick" for some clients. She throws on a stereotypical heavy Chinese accent while wearing a bastardized qipao costume-- despite the fact that she is Korean and speaks perfect English.

* In ''Film/{{Mammoth}}'', a major plotline starts with Leo visiting a place where sex-workers and clients hook up, just to have a look. [[DeconstructedTrope He obviously expected the local prostitute to be a living stereotype: Finding out that she's a regular normal person makes him shocked and confused]]. He awkwardly tried to take up the role of MightyWhitey KnightInShiningArmor instead, but it doesn't work. After that, he spends the rest of the story trying to convince himself that he's a heroic lover and that [[spoiler:paying a sex-worker "for not having sex" and then have sex with her after all]] does not make him a John. [[spoiler:This also fails miserably, and he end up leaving her without even saying good-bye... {{Reconstruction Thus after all treating her as a lowly whore to be used and discarded}}.]].

* In ''Film/{{Mammoth}}'', a major plotline starts with Leo visiting a place where sex-workers and clients hook up, just to have a look. [[DeconstructedTrope He obviously expected the local prostitute to be a living stereotype: Finding out that she's a regular normal person makes him shocked and confused]]. He awkwardly tried to take up the role of MightyWhitey KnightInShiningArmor instead, but it doesn't work. After that, he spends the rest of the story trying to convince himself that he's a heroic lover and that [[spoiler:paying a sex-worker "for not having sex" and then have sex with her after all]] does not make him a John. [[spoiler:This also fails miserably, and he end up leaving her without even saying good-bye... [[Reconstruction Thus after all treating her as a lowly whore to be used and discarded]].]].