Thread: This is an antique Chinese bed. Traditional Chinese beds are enclosed on three sides, with only one way in and out. Women had to sleep between the wall and their husbands and weren't allowed to climb over or wake them. If you needed to go to the loo at night... You couldn't.

Shhh, don't tell anyone, but this is (a portion of) the part that got us a copyright strike.

Was wondering how LLM is impacting the DnD scene, and then I got a YouTube ad about exactly that: A DnD game hosted by a Gen-AI. I hate insomnia so much.

Our timeline is a mess, and the only way to save it is to make a good adaptation of CATS. I propose we make one in which the cats are people in a Gothic Masquerade ball wearing cat masks. The story is set in Colonial Shanghai, where a Chinese cat sneaks into the opulent British colony.

Yooo, the Sekiro animation looks pretty sick.

I bet you 5 bucks people will start calling non-DLSS 5 visuals "woke".

Today, you are about to become one of the first humans to even know this movie exists, as we explore an obscure Chinese indie movie about a man trapped inside a public toilet while his death is foretold by haunted graffiti on the wall. youtu.be/B1MSK6fcHks

... Can I even show this movie on YouTube!?

A part of me wonders if I can create a chronology for Chinese mythology like how Greek myths have a clear order of events. Like, Monkey met Tripitaka in Tang dynasty after 500 years of imprisonment, which means he was born in Han dynasty, and fought 1200-year-old Nezha... You know what, forget it.

One of my strangest memories from primary school in China is learning about Spartacus. The text was formatted as a play, and we had to act it out. At the end, Spartacus called to the slaves: "Ye who refuse to be slaves, arise!"... which are the lyrics of the Chinese National Anthem. It was weird.

Copyright striked, again. Next video cut in half. I should find a job.

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My brain is doing that 2AM I-need-to-sleep meme, and I had to look up if "A Robin Hood movie set in the hood" has been done. And apparently I'm not at all original.

One final thing I'll say about Sifu is that the game has style o' plenty. It'd be so easy to lean into the typical Chinese elements and have the level be a restaurant or the Great Wall. Instead, we have a nightclub an a museum. There is something punk-ish about it. And it's why Sifu stands out.

You guys think Melania watched Melania (2026)?

Thread: Here are some instances of funny and weird Chinese stuff found in the game Sifu. How funny? Well, in the Night Club level, there are various fire-related slogans, one of which is 火烧火燎. It literally means "fire burns", but it's used to describe someone being anxious... or horny.

I just killed this old lady by parrying her rope with a stick from 300 yards away. And they say Kung Fu is useless. (This game makes no sense)

Sigh... I'm experiencing Sifu relapse.

Thanks to AI-generated movies, the whole world is experiencing what Chinese cinema went through in the 2010s. Suddenly, a lot of people can make movies. Everyone wants the prestige of cinema, but not everyone has a story to tell. So every creation is a cheap imitation of a Hollywood product :/

Returning to our discussion on the Butterfly Lovers, in 1997, archeologists actually discovered a grave in Ningbo, belonging to a Jin dynasty scholar turned local minister, someone named Liang Shanbo.

Hanuman and the 7 Ultramen is a 1974 unlicensed Ultraman spin-off from Thailand. I've seen this movie multiple times and I still don't know what I'm looking at.

Here's an obscure little gem: This is A Chinese Ghost Story (1998), written & produced by Tsui Hark, who also made the ACGS trilogy. With aid from Studio Ghibli animators, the film looks like a Spirited Away prototype. It's also a pretty funny retelling of the story.

Does anyone play Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, and has the capability to record some gameplay footage? Need it for a future video.

Today, we begin a new video series with a Chinese folktale from a thousand years ago: The Butterfly Lovers. It is the Chinese Romeo and Juliette, but with cross-dressing. After months of work, I'm excited to begin this new series. Stay tuned for more horror/romance folktales! youtu.be/WosbkRnS7Bc

Fans may get angry with my statement. But I truly believe the two franchises have the same style of writing. Love it.

Zhu Yingtai proceeds to disguise herself as a boy to attend an all-boys school.

Currently working on a video on The Butterfly Lovers, a one thousand year old Chinese folktale. Interestingly, the story's most famous adaptation isn't a movie or a play, but a 1959 Violin Concerto. It is perhaps my favorite piece of music from China, ever. youtu.be/3hnKc-kTCSc

It never crossed my mind to ask this, but… how familiar are Nordic people with Norse mythology?

How did the Bermuda Triangle became one of the few shared memories for children around the world?

Just finished playing God of War (2018) and Fenyx Rising (2020) back to back, and the experience is hilarious. Not only does Fenyx reference God of War quite a few times, it also tells the exact opposite story. The Greek gods are interesting because they are flawed like us, and that is true.

I'm sad. I want to talk about the legend of Zhong Kui. But every single Zhong Kui adaptation sucks ass!

Happy year of the horse!

Astro Boy wasn't the first Jp anime imported into China because on November 29, 1979, "Taro, the Dragon Boy" (Toei, 1979) was broadcast in China on CCTV, which explains the 2007 Chinese DVD release. Astro Boy only arrived the following year (December 7) on CCTV

Thread: Another thing we skimmed over in our last video was China's boycott of Harold Lloyd and Welcome Danger (1930). In terms of racism, this movie was far from the worst of its time. It's certainly not nice, but the reaction seems a bit excessive... or so it seems.

Thread: There are many details we skipped in our new video. We mentioned that Astro Boy, created by Osamu Tezuka, had a strong affection towards Chinese animation, but this love is mutual. 1980, the same year he visited Shanghai, Astro Boy became the first TV anime to be imported to China.

Behold, the greatest true love triangle in cinematic history.

Want to learn about that time Astro Boy met Sun Wukong? Or when China boycotted comedian Harold Lloyd? In this video, we wrap up our journey through Shanghai, and explore the post-war film history of this cinematic city. youtu.be/P_przvSPThE

The only thing more boring than a marble-white Classical Greece is a straight-only Classical Greece.

Hate it when a YouTuber keeps saying they are not good with games, that they don't play difficult games often, and procees to beat Sifu in like half the time it took for me to did the same.

Without context, the Chinese term "Full Blood Resurrection" sounds metal AF in English.

Bro, I was genuinely enjoying Wolfenstein II the whole time, and then the courtroom scene happens and the tonal shift hits me harder than BJ's dad hits him. What happened? Did they change writers half way through??

Sometimes, I question my career choice, too.

Some movie ends with "The End". Some movie ends with "Fin". The 1947 melodrama The Spring River Flows East ends with "Goodbye".

Here's a spoiler moment from Legend of Hei 2. Surprisingly this isn't even the most hype moment, nor the best fight of the film. But the aura farming is delicious. Release this movie in the West, damn it!

Disney Princesses have an average kill count of 120.

Yakuza fans who can tell the Amons apart scare me.

Dead to Rights (2025) is now available on YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon, and Google Play. A lot of viewers have been asking for a legal way to watch the movie, and now you can! This is not a sponsored post; I just think more people should see the movie.

Found this doozy called The Daughter of the Samurai (1937), a co-production between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, in which a German-educated Japanese man rejects his German lover to be with his Japanese fiancée. At the end, the couple start a new life in Manchuria, which they call a "new land".

As a former film student, all I can say is... look, we all fell asleep in class. This is perfectly normal.

I logged into Shanghai Animation Film Studio's website and saw this drink and was confused. And then I realized it's a collab with Tim Hortons and I'm even more confused.