Want more? I got more. Yes, I got a little carried away last night. heh.
Chow Yun-Fat, dude. Can't forget him. In the movie "The Corruptor" his character and all the Triad bad guys were Chinese. He was in "Bulletproof Monk" though I don't know that he was specifically Chinese in that. He'll also be the pirate Sao Feng in the next Pirates movie.
I think someone mentioned "Romeo Must Die" already (mmm, Russell Wong....) And I'm sure I'm blanking on more of those pseudo-Hong Kong action flicks. Any of Jet Li's other English-language roles.
And the venerable Kim Chan (was "the Ancient" mentioned above in Kung Fu). he's been in a billion things, usually playing the Wise Old Chinese Guy. Though my husband tells me he used to play Japanese in propaganda films during WWII.
I remember writing a long rant about the series "Strange World". There was a character known only as the "Japanese Woman" played by Vivian Wu. And there was no reason, that I could tell, that she had to be Japanese at all. Why couldn't she have been the "Chinese Woman"? A lot of times the name is our only indicator of specific origin anyway, so I don't really care, but there, it was so blatant and pointless, it irked.
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Date: 2007-01-31 10:20 pm (UTC)Chow Yun-Fat, dude. Can't forget him. In the movie "The Corruptor" his character and all the Triad bad guys were Chinese. He was in "Bulletproof Monk" though I don't know that he was specifically Chinese in that. He'll also be the pirate Sao Feng in the next Pirates movie.
I think someone mentioned "Romeo Must Die" already (mmm, Russell Wong....) And I'm sure I'm blanking on more of those pseudo-Hong Kong action flicks. Any of Jet Li's other English-language roles.
And the venerable Kim Chan (was "the Ancient" mentioned above in Kung Fu). he's been in a billion things, usually playing the Wise Old Chinese Guy. Though my husband tells me he used to play Japanese in propaganda films during WWII.
I remember writing a long rant about the series "Strange World". There was a character known only as the "Japanese Woman" played by Vivian Wu. And there was no reason, that I could tell, that she had to be Japanese at all. Why couldn't she have been the "Chinese Woman"? A lot of times the name is our only indicator of specific origin anyway, so I don't really care, but there, it was so blatant and pointless, it irked.