He said the US administration's recent actions against TikTok, which have been conducted without the support of any solid evidence, were "sheer gangster logic and daylight robbery".

He said certain places do not accept card payments and all the transactions have to be done by cash, and even some bank staff are in league with gangsters, so these criminals know when and where deliveries of cash will take place.

Once in Kenya, a van loaded with banknotes was attacked by armed gangsters, but the staff in the van refused to hand over the cash, according to the company.

"While they could just have handed the cash to the gangsters and reported it as a casual loss, as every company has a budget for such losses, they didn't, even when facing a choice between life and death.

and these stigmas affect the potential of an Asian film's box office," said Sam C. Mac, a film critic for Slant Magazine, adding that some moviegoers still live with the legacy of an Asian cinema that made its way to the United States primarily on the strengths of genre entertainments, martial arts movies and Hong Kong gangster films.