Posts from — May 2007

Long time coming, but the game to feature Chow Yun-Fat is scheduled for a Summer release. John Woo’s Stranglehold takes places ten years after the events of Hard Boiled, the 1992 film in which Chow Yun-Fat plays his iconic Inspector Tequila role.
Chow Yun-Fat has lent both his voice and his likeness to the game, which should add a cult sense of immersion in what maybe just another action game. I guess at the end of the day, how good it is will just depend on how well it plays.

Read more and see a trailer at Joystiq.com

Screenshots below:

Technorati Tags: Chow Yun-Fat, entertainment, film, gaming, John Woo, Playstation 3, Stranglehold, XBOX 360

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If you’re planning your Summer holidays (leaving it a bit late?) BusinessWeek.com has an article on Asia’s hottest holiday destinations.

Read more on Businessweek.com

Technorati Tags: Asia, culture, hottest destinations

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Mo Man Tai is a Dutch company with a Chinese name, whose aim is to develop concepts which surprise, entertain and impress. They have a range of laser cut stainless steel products which you have to “crease” and fold from flat to complete them. This process apparently allows character to be added to these steel plates. To be honest, I’m not sure how much character can be added - the egg holder in particular is very simple, which is nice. However, we do applaud their use of stainless steel industry leftovers.

Mo Man Tai Design

Technorati Tags: gadgets, Mo Man Tai Design, Stainless Steel

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Martial arts master and Hong Kong action movie veteran Donnie Yen has a new film forthcoming called “Flash Point“. It will be a Wilson Yip (drama direction) and Donnie Yen (action direction) collaboration, who both first worked together on the violent cops and triads film “SPL” two years ago.

“Flash Point” promises to be less dark (”There’s some hope at the end”, and unlike SPL, probably some survivors too) and hopes to bring mixed martial arts to the attention of Asia. Donnie portrays an agent who battles against three brothers of a powerful Vietnamese gang.

From the March 07 issue of Hong Kong’s Talkies magazine who interviewed Donnie Yen:

‘Yen has become a proponent of mixed martial arts, an interdisciplinary form of fighting utilising elements of jiu-jitsu, judo, karate, boxing, kickboxing and wrestling. “This will be the next trend in world martial arts,” he predicts excitedly. “I spotted it a couple of years ago and did the research and training - I shouldn’t be ding this to my body at my age, but I love it.” he laughs. Eyes gleaming, he urges interested parties to check out the Ultimate Fighter Championship (the official US body for mixed martial arts) website at www.ufc.com. “In a year or two it’s going to sweep Asia, like X Games did, and I want to be the first to put it in the cinema.’

Visit the official Flash Point movie website
Watch a trailer of Flash Point on YouTube
Watch a short Making Of Flashpoint video clip

Technorati Tags: Donnie Yen, film, Flash Point, Hong Kong, mixed martial arts, Wilson Yip

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If you’re dreaming of Nintendo Game & Watches, cakes, or weddings, then you might like these Mario and Luigi hats. Except they’re actually cushions and not real, wearable hats. So you CAN only really dream of Nintendo. If you know what I mean…

Buy them for $29 (each?) at NCSX

From Joystiq.com

Technorati Tags: cushions, entertainment, interiors, Japanese, Luigi, Mario, Nintendo

Another documentary from Five, Mao’s Bloody Revolution Revealed, is on this Thursday 24th May at 7.15pm. Its an hour and forty five minutes, so get your cocoa ready before it begins..

“A documentary offering a portrait of Mao Tse-Tung, one of the 20th century’s most controversial leaders. Author and former BBC correspondent Philip Short looks at Mao’s life from his childhood and rise to power to his death in 1976. The programme examines the legacy of Mao’s rule of China and features exclusive interviews with some of Mao’s inner circle, as well as dramatic unseen footage from the period of the ‘cultural revolution‘.”

Technorati Tags: China, culture, documentary, Mao Tse-Tung

A robot shoots a ball during the Eighth National Robot Soccer Contest in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei province, on May 14, 2007. About 300 robots from 86 teams participated in the contest. The winner will represent China to participate in the finals of the 2007 FIRA World Cup Robot Soccer Contest in San Francisco, which will be held on June 13, 2007.

From Activate.us

Technorati Tags: China, football, robots, sport

The previously posted Paul Merton  in China series started last night and is shaping up to be a good, albeit short (4 part) travel documentary series. Its on for the next three Monday nights at 9pm.

A minisite for the series has launched with a few video clips from the programmes and information on each part as they are aired:

Paul Merton in China minisite on Five.tv

Technorati Tags: Channel Five, China, culture, Paul Merton, tv series, United Kingdom