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It can have surely escaped nobody's notice that today, 27 November, 2010, would have been Bruce Lee's 70th birthday. To celebrate the event Google has brightened up its search box with a Bruce Lee doodle in Hong Kong (see above).
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, tribute videos have started appearing online - here's a wonderful montage made by an Italian fan:
On this day in 1976 Marxist revolutionary Mao Zedong died, but as China gears itself to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, it's clear that the propaganda machine is still alive and well with an epic film - The Founding of a Republic (Jiangguo Daye) - starring the nation's biggest movie stars soon to hit cinema screens. It stars a staggering A-list of actors, including Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Stephen Chow, Donnie Yen, Zhang Ziyi, Andy Lau - the list goes on and on!
However, some reservations about the film are being voiced in the world's press. The Independent, for example, puts it right alongside some of the most extreme examples of propaganda movies of all time.
As an example of the genre, this one is up alongside Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will or Roland Emmerich's Independence Day.
Propagandist or not, it's certain to break local box office records.
Veteran Chinese actor and star of Hong Kong martial arts movies Shek Kin (also known as Shih Kien) has died at 96. Star of countless Wuxia movies he's probably best known in the west in villainous roles thanks to his legendary performance as Han opposite Bruce Lee in the 1973 martial arts classic Enter the Dragon.
Confucius
It can have escaped very few Hong Kong movie fans' notice that Chow Yun-Fat is all set to star as Confucius in a major new production backed by the Chinese government.
Since the announcement yesterday, the news was picked up by all the major news and entertainment websites, as a ripple of both curiosity and excitement buzzed quickly through the Internet.
With a budget of HKD $22 million (approx. £2 million sterling) this biopic will be a joint production between Beijing-based company Dadi Cinema and the state-run China Film Group.
Anita Mui Yim-fong died tragically young of cervical cancer 5 years ago today on 30 December 2003.
Here she is, together with Leslie Cheung, in one of her finest movie roles as the courtesan Fleur in Stanley Kwan's Rouge.
There's a thorough piece on the new 50 part epic Chinese State TV series on the life of Bruce Lee in the Independent today.
Bruce Lee is a national hero in China for the way he embodies Chinese pride and nationalism in his movies. Yet many in mainland China missed him the first time around – in the early 1970s – because movies such as Enter the Dragon and Fists of Fury were banned by Chairman Mao Zedong's Communist government as spiritual pollution andrightist sentimentality.
Spot Hong Kong Movie superstars Jackie Chan and Andy Lau...plus a cast of thousands in Zhang Yimou's spectacular closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics!
Long term partners Tony Leung and Carina Lau were married yesterday in the Himalayan nation Bhutan in a ceremony attended by some big names in the world of Hong Kong movies - directors Wong Kar-wai and Stanley Kwan, actors Brigitte Lin, Chang Chen and Ti Lung, as well as singer Faye Wong.
Source: http://www.iht.com
Bruce Lee died 35 years ago today on 20 July 1973…this is a great video tribute featuring all the fight footage from my personal favourite Lee movie Fist Of Fury (aka The Chinese Connection).
Andy Lau, one of Chinese cinema’s biggest stars, ran the fourth leg of the Olympic torch relay in Hong Kong on Friday 2nd May. This great shot shows him still holding on to the torch on the bus after it had been officially passed on!
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