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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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)?

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?

Please take 10 minutes out of your day to watch this awkward Taiwanese interview with peak mumbly Steven Seagal from when he was promoting On Deadly Ground.

Please take 10 minutes out of your day to watch this awkward Taiwanese interview with peak mumbly Steven Seagal from when he was promoting On Deadly Ground.

Taiwanese movies just hit different, y'know?

Thanks to Luke Safely for reviewing the Challenge Of The Lady Ninja blu ray and shouting out the commentary by myself and Paul Fox, as well the track by @declouxj.bsky.social and @dylancheung.bsky.social. lukelooks.com/post/challen... Available now from Error 4444.

Looks like Wong Jing finally got his award from the Screenwriters' Guild. Presented to him by Nick Cheung, the man he tried to make into a replacement Stephen Chow.

it looks really good too

Half the profits from last year's theatrical release of the PTU restoration was used to keep Johnnie To's Next Wave Film Festival, a significant stepping stone for up and coming filmmakers, alive. Maybe somebody can convince him to restore The Odd One Dies which he owns himself.

Takuya Kimura has allegedly been dropped from the Twilight of the Warriors / Kowloon Walled City sequel and replaced by Daniel Wu due to ongoing tensions between China and Japan. Talk about a downgrade, man.

Beat King Mammoth and got the Cola Bottle (after six tries) in LIVE A LIVE. Feels good.

Now the Lunar New Year's in full swing, is this the year the deleted scene from A Chinese Odyssey 2002 where Tony Leung and Faye Wong go full Love on a Diet fat suits from eating and drinking so much while endlessly trying to see each other off is finally unearthed?

The Love Eterne (1963)

Two of this year's New Year movies, Back to the Past and Night King, are now among the top 10 highest grossing Chinese-language films in Hong Kong. It's heartwarming how some movies have rallied local audiences in recent years, but it's not healthy for the industry imo

New translation! This week I’ve translated the short documentary Ise-Shima, the 1949 directorial debut from the man behind Godzilla, Ishiro Honda! Enjoy the start of one of the most famous names in movies, the first instance of underwater filming in Japan, and lots of post-war anxieties!

I watched Peking Opera Blues for the first time last night and it’s one of the coolest films I’ve ever seen. Everyone should go and buy Arrow’s new 4K UHD, not just for the film, but the new translation by @dylancheung.bsky.social, which is one of the best I’ve ever seen (and want to discuss).

Night King is genuinely good. An actual turning point for Hong Kong movies about Hong Kong where the film's metaphor for the city remains a metaphor for the whole thing and they don't beat the audience over the head with it. Sammi Cheng underwritten and underused though.

While I was rolling my eyes, I heard audible gasps from the mostly Chinese audience in my fairly packed session of Zhang Yimou's Scare Out. Ministry of State Security, you've still got it!

Hou Hsiao-hsien, he's just like us.

Hou Hsiao-hsien, he's just like us.

I like when Wong Jing talks about his dad because it's the only time he'll let his guard down and come off as being completely sincere. Also, Johnnie To's Election is his favourite film of the 2010s apparently.

Free Too Many Ways to Be No.1 along with Yakko, Wakko, and Dot from the Warner Bros. water tower!

Hats off to @dylancheung.bsky.social for doing TWO subtitle tracks for Arrow UK's PEKING OPERA BLUES: A straight forward translation, and a second 'alternate' track, that is cpture the feeling of the dialogue through some clever style choices. Dylan's truly the Alexander O. Smith of HK movies!

It's 2026 and I can go see a Zhang Yimou in 4DX and a Yuen Woo-ping in IMAX. What a world.

If you're wondering what to watch this Year of the Horse.

It's that time of year again. I rouse Andy Lau from his slumber.

Art director Man Lim-chung found the clapperboard for Patrick Tam's Love Massacre: "The owner of this clapperboard just told me they've kept it for 40-odd years. The date on it is for the last shot of the film."

"How do we promote Bullet in the Head?" "Make Tony Leung and Fennie Yuen juice oranges on TV against members of the audience! John Woo presents the winners with a 7-day package tour of Zhangjiajie, twin share!"

"How do we promote Bullet in the Head?" "Make Tony Leung and Fennie Yuen juice oranges on TV against members of the audience! John Woo presents the winners with a 7-day package tour of Zhangjiajie, twin share!"

Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Monday following his conviction on foreign collusion and sedition charges. Full story: buff.ly/6MkP1zn

Drawings Edward Yang made of Tsai Chin while watching her perform on variety show Just Tonight

They're crowdfunding a 4K remaster of Akio Jissoji's 1988 Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (Teito Monogatari), whose source novel was also adapted into the anime OVA Doomed Megalopolis. Rewards include a UHD Blu-ray but I doubt it'll be English-friendly. motion-gallery.net/projects/tei...

Taiwanese film producer Wu Tun has passed way. A major producer of Hong Kong-Taiwan co-productions and the films of Chu Yen-ping in the '90s, Wu was also a notorious gangster, the Bamboo Union's chief enforcer who perpetrated the infamous 1984 murder of Taiwanese author Chiang Nan on American soil.

Taiwanese film producer Wu Tun has passed way. A major producer of Hong Kong-Taiwan co-productions and the films of Chu Yen-ping in the '90s, Wu was also a notorious gangster, the Bamboo Union's chief enforcer who perpetrated the infamous 1984 murder of Taiwanese author Chiang Nan on American soil.

They're crowdfunding a 4K remaster of Akio Jissoji's 1988 Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (Teito Monogatari), whose source novel was also adapted into the anime OVA Doomed Megalopolis. Rewards include a UHD Blu-ray but I doubt it'll be English-friendly. motion-gallery.net/projects/tei...