Contd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv37D-58NOcI of course had previously mentioned Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman in this post:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/media-decolonization/msg30495/#msg30495This is what I would like to see going on more between non-Western movie industries, an excellent folkist practice that began during the Counterculture era:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatoichi_and_the_One-Armed_Swordsman
Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman (Japanese: 新座頭市・破れ！唐人剣; Chinese: 獨臂刀大戦盲侠), also known as Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman and The Blind Swordsman Meets His Equal, is a 1971 chambara-wuxia crossover by Japanese film director Kimiyoshi Yasuda and Chinese film director Hsu Tseng Hung. A Japanese-Hong Kong co-production, the film stars Shintaro Katsu as the blind swordsman Zatoichi and Jimmy Wang Yu as the "One-Armed Swordsman" Wang Kang.[1] It is a crossover of the long-running Zatoichi series and the One-Armed Swordsman film series.
Another collaboration (non-crossover) movie I had previously promoted was Spy Games:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/japan-to-export-jets-missiles-to-12-nations-bid-to-counter-belligerent-china-in-/msg15879/#msg15879https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8TlSf7V6g
Yet another (from which I had in the same previous post only posted one of its songs) is You Are My Destiny, now fully available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xWRoQwl4Zowhich is worth watching for just the bicycle scenes alone!
As for Fist of Fury, I would add that in its 1994 remake Fist of Legend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNKesjwV5to(which I also consider to be a better movie overall), Chen Zhen is portrayed with significant positive relations with several Japanese characters, including a love interest*, absent from the original. Note also that Fearless, previously mentioned here:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/yandi-vs-huangdi-myth-confirmed/msg12893/#msg12893can be considered plotwise a prequel to Fist of Fury/Fist of Legend, as Huo Yuanjia's death at the end of Fearless is what kicks off the story in Fist of Fury/Fist of Legend.
(* This idea actually originates in the 1981 TV drama version of the same story, The Legendary Fok, which is my personal favourite version of the story. Unlike Fist of Legend where Chen's girlfriend is openly Japanese (and non-combatant), here she is a Japanese spy who presents as Chinese in public, while also infiltrating Western colonialist spaces, and thus is able to see things from multiple perspectives. Fans are shipping this pairing to this day:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1AF411w7m2/ 
)
As for the point about the anti-IJA faction in Japan, the following recent movie elaborates:
https://yts.mx/movies/revolver-lily-2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76wmEU8WJL8Woke comments (returning to first video):
**** the west trying to set up the asian countries against another
it would be nice if you research more what fascism really is. you keep saying fascism even though it doesnt fit in the context of the sentence or the topic at hand.
"One day I'm certain, we'll be friends again"
I hope so
This one is hard. As time passes, new media takes over, old classics get buried in the rumble of new media content. There will be some that watch it, chasing the classics and having a new glean of perspective towards things, but they are far too few to matter in the balance of things. The majority will crowd out the voices of the reasonable few
It's all just a representation of the old culture of China unlike the modern China which is ruled by the silly northern people. It's a culture that doesn't exist anymore on the mainland and the only place you might find some resemblance is Hong Kong but the culture of politeness was long gone ever since the Mongol's came down and ruined everything. Before that we had great relations with China.
The current LDP primary election is only making it worse, all thanks to Sanae Takaichi’s “Nara Deer” comments.
Hopefully china will forget the daft idea of invading Taiwan dragging everyone into a pointless war
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