<P> Many of his roles are caricatured East Asians with heavy accents , though he does not speak Japanese . Jason Buchanan wrote for Allmovie , `` The character that Gedde Watanabe is most remembered for is Long Duk Dong , the clumsy foreign exchange student in ( the 1984 film ) Sixteen Candles , '' a role decried by some Asian - American groups as `` stereotypical , racist and part of a long history of Hollywood 's offensive depictions of Asian men . '' `` I was making people laugh . I did n't realize how it was going to affect people , '' Watanabe said in 2008 . `` It took me a while to understand that . In fact , I was working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , and I was accosted a couple of times by a couple of women who were just really irate and angry . They asked , ' How could you do a role like that ? ' But it 's funny , too , because at the same time I laugh at the character . It 's an odd animal . '' </P>
<P> Many of his roles are caricatured East Asians with heavy accents , though he does not speak Japanese . Jason Buchanan wrote for Allmovie , `` The character that Gedde Watanabe is most remembered for is Long Duk Dong , the clumsy foreign exchange student in ( the 1984 film ) Sixteen Candles , '' a role decried by some Asian - American groups as `` stereotypical , racist and part of a long history of Hollywood 's offensive depictions of Asian men . '' `` I was making people laugh . I did n't realize how it was going to affect people , '' Watanabe said in 2008 . `` It took me a while to understand that . In fact , I was working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , and I was accosted a couple of times by a couple of women who were just really irate and angry . They asked , ' How could you do a role like that ? ' But it 's funny , too , because at the same time I laugh at the character . It 's an odd animal . '' </P>
who played long duck dong in 16 candles
who played long duck dong in 16 candles
Gedde Watanabe
Gedde Watanabe