Asian Invasion - Episode 2: Hong Kong 

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.

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.

Agree I couldn't stop smiling...

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

No, it is the best cinematic era for all around the world.

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.

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 !

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...

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.

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

@@neo_bellic pretty sure he only dubbed himself in the english dub of shoalin soccer.

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

無可能未聽過王家衛名字😅

You're missing out lol.

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

@@pootytangnl ohh thnx

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.

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.

他是偉大演員

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

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.

I suspect mainland China's influence had a lot to do with that.

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).

Just ask Edison.

@@winslowwong9719 bushy meow meow 🤣🤣

@@Bojangb wouldn’t say no 😅

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.

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.

Stop trying to be offended by everything. Back when the Beatles became popular around the world, they called it the British Invasion. It's just a term.

It's only a sort of rhetorical exaggeration.

Come on. It's obviously an asian appreciation video

I don’t think that is a problem. It is describing the population of Asian culture. And “Asian Invasion” is the very sincere program. The production team had did the well data collection. The host was also familiar in Hong Kong film industry. So this is a good program. P.S. I am Hongkongese.