They also tried to use my subtitles for the screening but were eventually told they legally couldn't. Crazy stuff.

Peking Opera Blues — Cinema Reborn PEKING OPERA BLUES (TSUI HARK, 1986) 刀馬旦 Randwick Ritz, Sydney: 8:50 PM Friday 08 May Lido Cinemas, Melbourne: 8:45 PM Saturday 16...

Didn't realise how soon this was, but I'll be introducing Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues for Cinema Reborn on Friday 8 May at Sydney's Ritz Cinemas. Join me for a bona fide Hong Kong classic that has renewed resonance in these tumultuous times of ours. cinemareborn.com.au/Peking-Opera...

Sorry for the late reply, been dealing with some housing drama. Chow Yun-fat does this schtick where he puts on a mock Hakka accent. If he's mugging a lot or acting like a real goof, he's probably doing it. In City on Fire, he does it every time he says 'no problem' and also in the shower scene.

When I translate a movie, I always act out the lines to make sure they sound right (I'm sure all translators do this). I do this in my head for the most part, occasionally out loud unknowingly, but I'm pretty sure I got super into Bullet in the Head and was waving my hands around and stuff.

I want to but haven't had time. The next three eps are also one story so I'm thinking I'll do them all at once.

The An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty / Reincarnation of Golden Lotus box set has new interviews with directors Clara Law and Eddie Fong, a couple in real life, interviewing each other for their respective movies. Really cool!

He also wrote a few films, all directed by his wife Carol Lai, including 2001's Glass Tears, Kenji Tanigaki's first action director credit in Hong Kong. Film critic Shu Kei called him 'Hong Kong's best kept secret in town' who had a huge influence on different aspects of HK's popular culture.

《大偵探福爾摩斯》兒童小說作者厲河離世　讀者讚對小朋友的付出 深受小學生及家長歡迎的兒童偵探小說《大偵探福爾摩斯》作者厲河（原名：呂學章）周一（23日）離世，終年67歲。《大偵探福爾摩斯》出版社「正文社

News broke that author Lai Ho has passed away. While best known for his insanely popular series of children's books based on Sherlock Holmes, Lai promoted HK films in Japan and translated Japanese films for Golden Harvest in the '80s before becoming a leader in manga publishing in Hong Kong.

He's doing the Butterfly Lovers one...

If you don't know what microdramas are. The future is here and it fucking sucks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duanju

The people "directing" and supervising include Anselm Chan, director of the highest grossing ever HK movie The Last Dance (which my absolute loathing of is now justified), action star Philip Ng, and I assumed retired old hand comedy director Joe Ma. May AI take all their jobs.

Mei Ah Entertainment are producing AI vertical microdramas (duanju) based on its IPs, including, and I kid you not, Wilson Yip's Bio-Zombie, New Wave horror The Imp, 2008's wuxia Butterfly Lovers re-imagining, and popular 2000s romcom Love Undercover. Nothing matters anymore.

Out today!

Just noticed the typo. I mean Error 4444! This is what happens when people aren't on here!

I think all our commentaries together are pretty good, but there was a string of them we did, including this one, where I feel we really nailed it. That or we just had a lot of fun recording.

Challenge of the Lady Ninja Blu-ray from Error 4444

Made my Error 4443 debut with @declouxj.bsky.social on Challenge of the Lady Ninja, a primo slice of Taiwanese genre cinema starring Elsa/Loretta Yang, muse of Taiwan New Cinema auteur Chang Yi. Complete your me and Justin joint audio commentary collection today!

海女, 海士, and 海人 are all read あま and mean female diver, male diver, and any old gender diver respectively. Sometimes I think Japanese is trolling me.

She told the press she has no plans to go into directing full time because it's really hard work and she loves acting too much to give it up.

Shu Qi won Best New Director for Girl at the 2026 Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild Awards

Shu Qi won Best New Director at the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild Awards for Girl. She was presented the award by Andrew Lau (Worst Old Director) who also convinced her to drop everything and come to Hong Kong to receive it.

Just got my copy of Error444 CHALLENGE OF THE LADY NINJA! Honestly, could not imagine a better package. Make sure to check out the commentary track I did with @dylancheung.bsky.social.

倉田保昭80歳｜魂を刻むアクション映画「夢物語」製作への挑戦を共に見届けるプロジェクト | クラウドファンディング - エールレール クラウドファンディングプロジェクト：倉田保昭80歳｜魂を刻むアクション映画「夢物語」製作への挑戦を共に見届けるプロジェクト。アクション俳優歴60周年を迎える倉田保昭が、80歳にして新たに挑む映画製作プロジェクトです。本作は自らの魂を刻むと共に、今なお「誰も歩いたことのない道」を歩み続ける生き様を映し出す作品となります。年齢を超えて挑戦し続けるその姿勢は、今の日本に勇気と活力を届けられると考えていま...

There's a crowdfunding campaign to support the movie and one of the rewards is a 2kg bag of rice grown by parents of members of the Kurata Action Club.

倉田保昭×サモ・ハンのアクション映画「夢物語」製作、監督は坂本浩一・谷垣健治・下村勇二（コメントあり / 写真6枚） - 映画ナタリー 俳優・倉田保昭が主演を務めるアクション映画「夢物語」が7月に公開決定。「七福星」などで共演し、長年の盟友であるサモ・ハンが友情出演を果たした。

Yasuaki Kurata just casually announcing on his 80th birthday that he's producing and starring in Yume Monogatari, an action movie directed by Koichi Sakamoto, Kenji Tanigaki, and Yuji Shimomura with a cameo from Sammo Hung.

Perfect

this knocked me out

Hugh Bonneville and Aidan Gillen taking jobs away from those expat actors who make their bread playing evil gweilo.

Is it apt or ironic that the leftist studio has been one of the last holdouts?

Kani Releasing Picks Up Five Classic Hong Kong Pics for North American Screens Kani Releasing Picks Up Five Classic Hong Kong Pics for North American Screens.

Cageman, The Engimatic Case, Just Like Weather, Gangs, and Queen of Temple Street! We're finally opening the Sil-Metropole floodgates.

AI Is Everywhere — All the Time — at Hong Kong’s Filmart As Hollywood remains locked in labor and legal battles over generative AI, Filmart is showcasing Asia’s increasingly full-throated embrace of the technology as both a foregone conclusion and the indus...

I hate this so fucking much. Did you know that even everybody's favourite Blades of the Guardians uses AI (and for the most stupid nothing reasons)?

A very young Meiko making a funny face and crossing her eyes

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) Scanned from Shukan Heibon (週刊平凡), January 5, 1967. 📽️ #filmsky 🎥 #japanesefilm

Taiwanese movies just hit different, y'know?