AHC: East Asian Leading Men acceptable in the 60s and onward

An interesting AHC here - have Asian actors, particularly men, become and be acceptable leading men in the 60s and beyond (especially the 60s-80s, though). I.E. have a leading character in a television show be Asian, or a major film role that would normally be filled by a White man be able to be filled by an Asian.
 
I'd say an Allied Japan in WWII would help or a surviving Nationalist China seen as core ally against the Soviets
 
The first Asian American film actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Philip Ahn, is likely the best candidate, since he wasn't as typecasted as others during the era. Perhaps by a twist of fate, he and James Shigeta might be featured in a film.

If you don't mind a somewhat different TL: Suppose that the Korean War became the East Asian War, and you had Japanese "police" forces also engaged with the Koreans. Then we might have a dramatic war movie where you have a greenhorn American private in a team with a Korean general (Ahn) and a young Japanese "police" officer (Shigeta) working together to survive in the barren landscape of Manchuria.
 
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