Asian Invasion - Episode 2: Hong Kong
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2015
- Episode 2 first aired on 17 January 2006. In this installment Ross meets comedy legend Stephen Chow and director Derek Yee, discusses the career of Michelle Yeoh, and hails the illustrious careers of martial arts legends Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee.
Asian Invasion is a three-part mini-series presented by Jonathan Ross which aired on BBC Four in January 2006. - Zábava
He is so good as a director! I would say probably the best Hong Kong comedy writer/director in the 90s.
And probably the hotest Hong Kong director 😂😂😂
@@jlix6 He is the hottest one.👍
He's best HongKong comedy actor of all time.
It's too bad Chow was never really taken serious as a director. I know he dealt with a lot of actors and actresses not wanting to work with him because they don't enjoy doing comedic acting.
@@daoyang223 And they just don't want to deal with his working style... it's time consuming... but people don't view him as serious as Ang Lee. Hollywood respected him, but not enough to give him the flexibility to work with him. The Hong Kong people just straight up hated him for embracing a bigger market.
I love how Steven Chow incorporates human kindness and humility in every movie he makes, but he doesn't stop there, he accompanies it with uplifting music renowned the world over. As they say, action speaks louder than words, and he is the master.
sadly, he is such a piece of shit in real life, just like jacky chan
@@donchen6856 Depend on what you meant by piece of shit. Hong Kong protestors can go too far, just like the BLMs, just like the capitol riots. People allow to be flaw, if I rank him on the scale. He should be on the upper 30%. Because I have seen people, and people are shitty. Regular normies are shitty human being.
Adam Sandler sort of play his sentimental stuffs in his comedies. But most of the time, it came out really not genuine unlike chow films.
true making us cry. He said it's his most fav scene when he said "the tear drop from the girl" that he thought a lot about.
The 90s was the golden era for HK cinema
No, it is the best cinematic era for all around the world.
Golden time of HK entertainment industry lasts forever. As a person from HK from the 80's, been away for half of my life, now in Europe, I'd appreciate very much I could watch all these remarkable films or enjoy the songs even till now, especially during lockdown. I guess it won't be again HK's entertainment is influential to the world, especially Chinese community. I'm thankful it did happen once and that could last for life.
18:32 Stephen Chow's laugh is infectious 😂❤️💯 love the interview!
Agree I couldn't stop smiling...
Stephen Chow always made his image as laylow as possible in movies. But actually he looked really cute and handsome here. Cool guy😂
Stephen chow... my all time favourite actor! Wish he was still acting.
Yes, hes a better actor than a director
The reason why Stephen Chow is no longer working as an actor is because he insulted Sammo Hung during the filming of Kung Fu Hustle. Since then no HK director wants to work with him.
@@jakelam5089 thats no shock, Stephen Chow is known to be an asshole
@@jakelam5089 you're acting like he can't just act and direct at the same time
Is hard to appreciate Stephen s movies without understanding cantonese
So many references and puns. 😆
So true.
Not really. A lot of people who don't speak cantonese at all, still enjoy his movies, including me. I know many will be lost in the translations, but it doesn't mean we can't appreciate all his works.
I don't need to understand Cantonese to appreciate the fact that they're really not that great.
not just cantonese, its life in Hong Kong. If you live the expat life in Hong Kong, you won't understand Stephen chow movies.
1980s and 1990s Hong Kong cinema was AMAZING!!
Stephen Chow was being humble denying himself as a kungfu practitioner. He is actually regarded as one of the actors with real martial arts prowess only overshadowed by his superior acting and talent in comedy.
I do understand his humbleness, as in movie industries, there are REAL kungfu practitioner out there in Hong Kong work with Stephen Chow to design all the moves, although he himself is good at the move, there are real experts there behind the scene.
While I agree that he's probably too humble, it's also easy to see in all of his movies, that his martial arts skills don't compare to actors who devoted more of their life to the sport. He doesn't have the range/diversity of moves, nor the precision of movement.
Even Andy Lau, who's also not a devoted martial artist, gives a better looking performance. Or at least he did when he was young.
Btw, I don't think Chow was denying himself as a kung fu "practitioner". I assume he meant to say "not a master".
@@Kijinn There's a scene in Fight Back to School, where he kicks off a cigarette in the mouth of a fellow student, executed beautifully and perfectly. Accordingly that was done in one take only, without any rehearsal. In one interview, Yuen Bun (fellow disciples of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung under Peking Opera Master Jim-Yuen Yu) told of how Stephen Chow would beat Donnie Yan hands down in a real fight.
all i want now for stephen is his happiness , hope he’s happy and fine , thank you for all the movies u made we love u
Thanks for uploading these! 😄
Steven chow created so many laughs for us he is awesome
I'm surprised how well Stephen carried his conversation in English
Probably had to ramp up his English after Shaolin Soccer became such a big international hit because most of his English interviews are of him with his longer gray hair.
@The Last Dad on Earth
English used to be a mandatory subject in every Hong Kong primary and secondary school. Therefore Stephen Chow learned English since he was was a child, that's why the vast majority of Hong Kong people (especially who grew up in the 70s/80s/90s) speak English
Thanks for sharing it.........it means a lot to me bieng a stephen chow fan😄😄👍👏❤💯💟
Watching this in 2021, sad to see how few good hk films are produced these days. Even though I wasn't alive during the peak of hk movies but most of my favorite hk films are older than me
If there ever will be a live action adaptation of an action comedy anime like one punch man...we need stephen chow to do it
Wow awesome job bbc...rare interview with stephen chow so awesome.
Thanks for posting
The golden era of Hong Kong cinema is now sadly gone. China’s influence has arguably been detrimental to HK cinema.
also the Hong Kong goverment is going to introduce a tougher film censorship
Youre partly right but Chow's slaptick comedy is dying breed in the world even in the west due to change within society (politically correctness). Can you imagine the uproar when Chow called a fat ugly lady, "a fat ugly lady" in his movie nowaday? The social media especially the twitter mob would hunt him down. Thats the reality we face right now.
😏Nowadays movies/dramas It's over because nowadays no new actors/actresses that can acting, it's not about the script, even simple family dramas/movies in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s are better than nowadays dramas/movie . Why? Not because of the script or because the chinese mainland not allowed hongkong to make good movies/dramas .the main reason is the actors/actresses can't acting especially chinese mainland actors /actresses they overacting, no good director nowadays director also lazy the same like the actors/actresses .the video camera for filming from old video camera to digital, everything count. It's not just hongkong but all over the world, no more good movies/dramas. The only one country that i think improved a lot during all these years is singapore i am impressed with their acting skill, they did not impressed me at all couple years ago but recently their dramas i watched it's just simple family drama but the acting is what caught my attention. They really improved a lot. Of course still can't compare to old hongkong movies/dramas. But i don't watch new movies /dramas anymore only this singapore dramas i watched although not full eps or not 100% very focus, because i was working when my tv on so i stopped and watched for a while, they got my attention i am impressed with their acting skill, the korean movies/dramas are just terrible with nonsense story line, they can keep making drama that beg for sympathy from us, like cancer leukemia or whatever disease they can think, all their dramas like that, always begging for sympathy and too much drama.
@@harukrentz435 he can call a fat ugly lady, he can say anything he want. Twitter what? The twitter use memes too. Nothing wrong with that.
Uh, have you seen the content in Chow's body of work? For example, that naked child used for comedy in King of Comedy is simply no longer acceptable in today's post Me Too world, and neither is the scene where Chow is visibly playing with the child's private parts. You can thank cancel culture for most of that prohibition, and common sense/child protection for the rest of it... none of which has to do with China. In fact, that prohibition is the influence of the west. What say you about that...
Stephen Chow is my favorite Chinese actor. I'm glad to know him more, and it's good that he can speak English. I can understand it better. Thanks for sharing the video.
Hongkongese is not Chinese.
@@PeterHong1989 No,they are Chinese, but CCP not are Chinese.
Hongkongese.
I stand corrected, ok it's Hongkongese. Thank you.
@@PeterHong1989 it's Cantonese !
This is the first time I heard Stephen Chow spoke English.
This was really interesting to watch. The host its a true fan obviously.
I thought Stephen can't converse in English after so many years watching his movie and speaking Cantonese. This actually the best interview of him
Under British rule the schools taught English so a few of the old school actors can speak English. Just not perfect English. All that is gone now under China rule the schools now require Mandarin.
@@rustybros thats so untrue as someone whos from hk , i can attest to the fact that every school in hk still offers english as part of the compulsory syllabus
he dubbed himself in english versions of his movies
@@neobellic7258 pretty sure he only dubbed himself in the english dub of shoalin soccer.
I hope he will direct new movies. Love his movies so much
Came here to revisit some kung fu films and did not expect to get a bit teary eyed when shown the best bits of Derek Yee's films. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Now I gotta check out Yee's films whereas I had avoided romantic dramas before.
If Shang Chi was produced and directed in HK, that movie would be one hell of a crazy ride. Although i enjoyed the movie but it just seemed to be trying to be a kung fu movie without all the craziness you can find in HK action films.
he is very talented. So original and creative.. so many copy cats tried to imitate him like there was a tv show called shaolin soccer that was produced after this movie was released.. and the snot dropping down?? its overused now by other movies.
Chows movies are the closest and best versions of a live action anime. Better than any actual live action, ever.
wow the asian invasion hong kong video has 10x more views than the korean and japanese video combined
I love u chow sing from india
the good old times of Hong Kong...can only reminis
Haha... great interview with Chow Sing Chi
Proud Asian also He’s my hero, I think that ppl who’s the same age with me could saw a lot of films directed by Stephan Chow. I love him.
Woa - Stephen Chow 👍👍👍
King of Comedy is a masterpiece.
One of the best hero in my life Stephen chow
Stephen chow my idol number 1 the best comedian😄😄😄😄😆😆😆😆.
Stephen Chow and that old man (rip) made the best comedy movies
Never realized how cheesy the music was in HK movies until they called it out in this documentary hahaha
His English accent is really wonderful
Mr. Stephen Chow is bullied by specific groups in the filming industry.
And now a lot of movies are shot by, for and from Asia like crazy. I was reading an article about how some studios are setting up shop there for international release because its waaay cheaper than Hollywood lol
the thing with King of Comedy which is a brilliant movie, Chow plays a teacher in acting but hes actually a failed actor. hes like set in his ways and vision. so that long snot totally makes sense as to everything him doing being a failure.. he looked like he was nailing the scene, emotional.. but he overdoing it that he snot is coming out his nose... chows genius.
seorang pemikir,dia buat filem ada mesej hendak di sampaikan...
wong kar wai is the best director you may never have heard of. arthouse tour de force.
無可能未聽過王家衛名字😅
my idol
like i always said.. if Stephen Chow not in it, don't bother to watch Chinese movies. love him
You're missing out lol.
I am thankful to Google algorithm, i never knew Chow can speak so well English.
@20:47 I wish I could have seen this during 2006.
Kung fu hustle. Greetings from 2021
14:19 lol that aged well...Chow retired from acting 2 years later in 2008. Honestly there's no chance we'll see him in a movie again, he's sick of acting.
Now hes back acting with kung fu hustle 2 (if u look at stephen chow wikipedia page)
@@AirbusA330_BKT yeah but he won't be the star...he said he'd do a cameo but I doubt it
So the original John Wick happens to be Chow Yun Fat?
Great English Stephen Chow!
Anyone knows where this scene behind them is?
You are wrong about michelle Yeo. She is Malaysian royalty.
After 2 decades Hong Kong returned, creativity took a backseat
stephen had improved his english from zero. impressive.
Where is WONG - KAR - WAI?
Hi Paul are you to talking to Stephen chow
Tony Leung!
他是偉大演員
Stephen Chow was actually influenced by movies such as Naked Gun(1-3), Airplane, and Tarantino.
香港加油
Wong Kar-Wai :O
Anyone else get this in their recommendations after the release of Shang-Chi
I think Jackie chan is a example of how batman can be real if you read the comics batman's body it riddled with wounds and injurys kinda like how Jackie chan is
Marvel Shang-Chi movie would've great thanks to Hong Kong Fight Geographer to make this movie happened.
Stephen chow need our new actor of chinese actress probably will hopefully is actor played. Is "Raiko Chong li".
It was Steven?
stephen Chow was like 30 years ahead of time, so was bruce lee and jacky chan.. that IS partly due to the west culture, they leaarnt to take the good from it, and trash teh bad from it.. it opened the mind to another perspective.. thats why the comedy chow was doing adn teh wit language the canotnese chinese use, was like 30 years ahead.. stephen chows a genius.. so was bruce lee and jackie chan. the things they done was way ahead of time.. so ofcourse the cinema was, as well as the pop music, in the 90s canto pop nearly went global. and the songs were incredible
naah it's not that kungfu and soccer didn't have any reference back then, sing chi was watching a lot soccer anime especially captain tsubasa
Chow was overshadowed in world due to Jackie chan stardom
Infernal affair is a kind avant garde for police procedural HK film but destroyed by the prequel (infernal affair 3)
I really want Stephen Chow to enter the Marvel universe
his ego is terrible although his movies are great. He won't work well with marvel. The stephen chow right now will be tough to work with.
@@PeanutButterAndJellyBros don't say anything bad about my idol. Stephen chow is number 1 the best.
"Hong Kong movie music is no longer all total shite"... Adam, my friend... 黄帝子孫 would like to have a word with you lol.
Can you tell me when was this episode telecasted on tv???
@@pootytangnl ohh thnx
When BBC did real documentaries and not fiction from their arm chair.
Cecilia Cheung naughty girl. In real life too, she is very naughty 😂😂
Just ask Edison.
@@winslowwong9719 bushy meow meow 🤣🤣
@@Bojang_Bugami32 wouldn’t say no 😅
Jonathon Ross is at home in hong kong. chinese cant say their R's either lol
You must hate jet li
Yes terrible host, jet li is the best number 1,how dare he said "even jet li"like jet li doesn't know kung fu.
But he totally skips over the evolution of Hong Kong action cinema in the 60s and 70s before Bruce Lee. And the hallmark of these films was that everyone had to do their own actions scenes which meant being athletic(there were no stunt people for the most part). The over the top violence and acrobatics was always present but it took a while for the effects to become more sophisticated. And all of these films are based on older forms of media such as books, legends and puppet theater from long before film.
It's true that he skipped over that. Rather unfortunate, but at least it gave him more time for the aspects he covered. He probably returned from his Hong Kong trip with several hours of recorded material, but was only given that 1 hour time frame for talking about it. Including the movie clips.
I'm not very fond of the 60s and 70s of HK cinema. It was an important time, but most of the action just doesn't look fancy or convincing enough. There are a lot of amazing movies from the latter half of the 70s, though.
If you could name any HK movies from the 60s, that have impressive action scenes, I'd love to check them out.
@@Kijinn I never really watched any of the 60s Shaw Brothers films until recently but when I did, the familiar tropes and formula was all there. This is why I made the statement. A few of those films were sent to international film festivals including "the Glorious Concubine" and "Come Drink With Me". That is why I said most of the major innovations of HK cinema was already developed in the 60s and the 70s and 80s were more about refinement. The films I most recommend that I actually am familiar with from the early 70s are Triple Irons(new One Armed Swordsman), Five Fingers of Death and Lady Kung Fu. The core issue still is that those actors who actually knew martial arts always made the best action sequences, even though most of them also were trained in Chinese Opera as the basis for the fight choreograhpy.
@@willd1mindmind639
True true!
Would like to see a few documentaries going in-depth on that era of HK films.
My kind of webel...
Stephen Chow should be brought Stateside and asked to take control of the Street Fighter franchise on film and maybe DragonBall live action.
HK TV shows sucks now. it's like they have no good actors/actresses and running out of idea/story.
This documentary was released in 2006. Didn't age well. Besides Donnie Yen, HK media has gone to sh*t. Film, drama, and especially singing. Absolute dumpster fire on talent. Accidentally listening to their recent talentless singers are like scratching chalkboards.
I suspect mainland China's influence had a lot to do with that.
You are the weakest link. TOCO! LOL
It was the best moment for Hong Kong. Sadly, as with Stephen, everyone had turned their head to China, that is how everything (including Stephen) become an end.
Stephen was great movie star before the 1997 too, but his golden age was actually 2000’s, after HK’s return to China where he championed the world through Shaolin soccer and Kungfu Hustle. Why? Because China’s mainland’s massive market enabled him to do so. And although he doesn’t act anymore as he isn’t interested in acting anymore, he’s still great movie star as a director and champions China’s market every time he makes a movie.
So Stephen Chow’s migration to mainland as a movie star might be sad for Hong Kong movie industry, but it also might be good for Stephen Chow himself as it opened up more opportunities and possibilities to him.
最少王家衞杜琪峰沒有，的確當時是香港電影最燦爛的時代，慶幸我親身感受過
Stephen improvised, thus lip syncing common interview responses. That's the difference of a master actor/con artist, sure made you think he knew english very well didn't it.
Wtf are you talking about? That's is his real voice and he spoke English in this interview.
That's not lip syncing kid, go back to school you.
anyone who thinks Kong Fu is a good movie should watch Back to School
Asian Effection sounds better
Stephen Chow is by far my favorite Hong Kong actor and film maker. Besides the more well known movies, his Fight Back to School movies are great. Something people in the west may not know is Chow had ties to the triads (the Hong Kong version of the mafia), since it's pretty much impossible to make movies there without those relationships as the industry is run by the Triads, so a lot of the comedic violence he incorporates actually references stereotypical Hong Kong style gang violence. Also, in the movie God of Cookery, there are a lot of references to gang culture, which is probably lost on the western audience.
Really? I don't know about that. Are you kidding? Where are you from?
@@jetlino.1126 I'm from Hong Kong
@@mountainpeakcloud8442 okay ,how do you know? That's just a rumour or any proof?
@@jetlino.1126 It was widely reported on in the 90s. If you were around then, you would have known.
@@mountainpeakcloud8442 thanks for the info, because of stephen chow personality i can't imagine how he communicate with the gangsters (hongkong mafia).
It's pronounced Wong gah way
45:28 is that Wong from Dr.Strange?
Nowadays movies/dramas It's over because nowadays no new actors/actresses that can acting, it's not about the script, even simple family dramas/movies in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s are better than nowadays dramas/movie . Why? Not because of the script or because the chinese mainland not allowed hongkong to make good movies/dramas .the main reason is the actors/actresses can't acting especially chinese mainland actors /actresses they overacting, no good director nowadays director also lazy the same like the actors/actresses .the video camera for filming from old video camera to digital, everything count. It's not just hongkong but all over the world, no more good movies/dramas. The only one country that i think improved a lot during all these years is singapore i am impressed with their acting skill, they did not impressed me at all couple years ago but recently their dramas i watched it's just simple family drama but the acting is what caught my attention. They really improved a lot. Of course still can't compare to old hongkong movies/dramas. But i don't watch new movies /dramas anymore only this singapore dramas i watched although not full eps or not 100% very focus, because i was working when my tv on so i stopped and watched for a while, they got my attention i am impressed with their acting skill, the korean movies/dramas are just terrible with nonsense story line, they can keep making drama that beg for sympathy from us, like cancer leukemia or whatever disease they can think, all their dramas like that, always begging for sympathy and too much drama.
Kevin Spacey of Hong Kong...........that hasn't aged well.
Hey host why you said jet li name so late and you said "even jet li "like he can't kungfu. Jet li my idol is number 1 king of martial art,stephen chow number 1 king of comedy.
They deserve the honor. I mean the U.K. government.
Thanks to the CCP, the HK film industry is now RIP.
With CCP's emperor Xi taking over and demanding changes in HK to be the same as any other CCP China province, you can say bye bye to the once golden age of HK movies.
To be fair, Golden Age of HK movies were already over as soon as funding started coming in from the mainland for movies to be made for the mainland.
It's over because nowadays no new actors/actresses that can acting, it's not about the script, even simple family dramas/movies in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s are better than nowadays dramas/movie . Why? Not because of the script or because the chinese mainland not allowed hongkong to make good movies/dramas .the main reason is the actors/actresses can't acting especially chinese mainland actors /actresses they overacting, no good director nowadays director also lazy the same like the actors/actresses .the video camera for filming from old video camera to digital, everything count. It's not just hongkong but all over the world, no more good movies/dramas. The only one country that i think improved a lot during all these years is singapore i am impressed with their acting skill, they did not impressed me at all couple years ago but recently their dramas i watched it's just simple family drama but the acting is what caught my attention. They really improved a lot. Of course still can't compare to old hongkong movies/dramas. But i don't watch new movies /dramas anymore only this singapore dramas i watched although not full eps or not 100% very focus, because i was working when my tv on so i stopped and watched for a while, they got my attention i am impressed with their acting skill, the korean movies/dramas are just terrible with nonsense story line, they can keep making drama that beg for sympathy from us, like cancer leukemia or whatever disease they can think, all their dramas like that, always begging for sympathy and too much drama.
for Mandarin speaking regions it is weird to even hear his real voice nonmentioning in English lol. 石班瑜 is really good tho