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Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: January 24, 2026, 03:44:09 am »

Foul play behind death of Counterculture leader?

https://www.visiontimes.com/2026/01/22/from-screen-hero-to-silenced-dissident-bruce-leungs-mysterious-death.html

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For generations of Chinese audiences, the 1980s television series The Legendary Fok (Da Xia Huo Yuanjia) remains an insurmountable cultural peak. Streets emptied as viewers gathered to witness the spirit of Huo Yuanjia and Chen Zhen. Above all, Bruce Leung Siu-lung’s portrayal of Chen Zhen—unyielding, righteous, and intolerant of evil—left an indelible mark. His flying kick shattered not only the infamous “Sick Man of East Asia” signboard, but symbolically struck back at a century of national humiliation.

Previous Leung coverage:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/media-decolonization/msg31051/#msg31051

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https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1AF411w7m2/

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In life, Bruce Leung closely resembled Chen Zhen himself: sincere, passionate, and deeply patriotic. Tragically, that devotion was misplaced.

As early as 1984, Leung traveled to mainland China filled with hope, publicly declaring: “As a Chinese person, I silently wish for the economic takeoff of my motherland.” This heartfelt statement, uttered against the backdrop of the Cold War, triggered a total blacklist from Taiwan. At the time, Hong Kong’s film industry depended heavily on the Taiwanese market, and directors no longer dared to cast him.

From stardom he fell into hardship. He sold goods at street stalls, hawked socks, and endured nearly twenty prime years without meaningful roles. What he never seriously confronted was the fatal misconception underlying his sacrifice: the CCP is not China, and the China he loved was never synonymous with the CCP. This misunderstanding cost him a lifetime.

Believing he had suffered for his “country,” Leung failed to see that the regime he defended never protected him. Only in 2004 did Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu briefly return him to public attention as the “Beast.” He could not have known that his turbulent life would end in such a grim and unsettling manner.

For decades, the author argues, Leung lived under the CCP’s united front influence—only recognizing the regime’s predatory nature at the very end.

Bruce Leung’s death: one forbidden video

By all accounts, Bruce Leung remained physically strong. A lifelong martial artist in his seventies, he practiced boxing and shared hotpot with friends the day before his death, showing no signs of illness. Yet death arrived with chilling precision.

The timeline is key:

    Jan. 13, 2026: Leung posted more than twenty emotionally charged videos on Douyin (China’s version of TikTok), speaking out about the Ningbo “Xiao Luoxi” child trafficking case. He declared: “I hope more people pay attention to trafficked children… I suggest severe punishment for traffickers, especially those who mutilate children. They should be sentenced to death. It’s too cruel.”
    Jan. 14, 2026: One day later, Bruce Leung died suddenly.
    Jan. 14–17, 2026: News of his death was comprehensively suppressed.
    Jan. 18, 2026: Friends quietly disclosed the death. The family announced that the funeral would be handled “low-key,” with burial scheduled for Jan. 26.

One day he calls for the death penalty for child traffickers; the next, he himself is gone.

Why did those words prove fatal?

In today’s China, the phrase “crack down on child traffickers” carries an unspoken implication: opposition to forced organ harvesting. According to allegations long circulated in overseas Chinese dissident circles, the CCP has transformed organ transplantation into a lucrative “pillar industry,” supplying elite longevity projects often referred to as the “150-year life program.”

Recall:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e0W_VQzLaio

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By explicitly condemning the mutilation of children—what the author equates with organ theft—Bruce Leung, a highly influential public figure, was seen as striking directly at one of the regime’s most secretive and profitable black chains.

The comment that appeared almost immediately under his video—“You’re in danger”—was not a joke, but a grim warning.

A bizarre ‘farewell’ and Jackie Chan’s coded message

After Leung’s death, a series of unsettling anomalies deepened suspicion.

On Jan.18, the day his death was made public, his Douyin account posted a strange message dated Jan. 14: “Please forgive my sudden departure. Just think of it as me going far away to shoot a film… I like a bit of mystery… Remember that I love you all.”

The tone resembles the “stability maintenance” scripts seen in numerous unexplained death cases—polished, sentimental, and implausible. The author argues that such words are incompatible with Leung’s blunt, martial temperament and appear manufactured to suppress questions and soothe public emotion.

Jackie Chan’s condolence message added another layer. He wrote: “Brother Leung, it’s snowing in Beijing. The sky is very overcast. I miss you.”

In Chinese political language, darkened skies often signal danger and unspeakable pressure. The author interprets this as the faintest signal an insider dared to send: that day, darkness ruled.

A bloody warning to Hong Kong’s cultural elite?

Bruce Leung’s death, the author contends, was not merely about silencing one man but about establishing terror. As public anger grows over organ harvesting allegations and grassroots resistance spreads, a figure of Leung’s stature speaking out risked triggering a cascade of elite dissent.
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Bruce Leung spent his life portraying heroes who defeated invaders, only to fall in reality to what the author calls the butcher’s knife of his “own side.”

The issue Leung championed:

https://www.visiontimes.com/2025/12/30/3-month-old-baby-dies-in-china-after-being-hospitalized-for-nasal-congestion.html

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Following two recent infant death cases that have rocked China, the Ningbo “Xiao Luoxi” case and the 22-day-old baby at Xiangya Second Hospital in Changsha, another tragedy has now emerged from the country’s Heilongjiang Province.

A 74-day-old baby girl died after being hospitalized for just four days due to nasal congestion at Mudanjiang Women and Children’s Hospital. The child’s mother alleges that the hospital altered nursing records more than 1,900 times and emergency treatment records over 60 times.
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The mother further claimed that many of these changes were made more than a week after her daughter died, and that some consultation records contained signatures from doctors who never appeared.
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“The doctors claimed the surgery was successful and tricked us into signing documents, but the incision between her ribs wasn’t even stitched. She bled to death.”
“This isn’t a medical accident. This is murder—and a group murder. The entire Ningbo Women and Children’s Hospital committed murder.”

Her posts were repeatedly scrubbed and deleted from social media.

Leung has achieved the only immortality that matters, namely becoming his own pop culture archetype:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jyUHNKQ3dk
Posted by: HikariDude
« on: September 14, 2025, 07:16:26 pm »

That’s actually a good point.
Though for the point about cars, sadly not every city/neighborhood is pedestrian friendly. Considering roads that are relatively large and distant, no wonder why people drive. To say nothing that some of them have crappy road management (which usually attracts crappy drivers, traffic policing, DMVs, etc) leading to more pedestrians involved in car accidents. Why do Westerners make simple living so difficult?
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: September 14, 2025, 05:59:51 pm »

"Aerobics/cardio can also be comparable to the stamina based labor of Neolithic subsistence farmers:"

I agree, except the latter expends energy for labour, whereas the former expends energy for the sake of expending energy, which feels wasteful. For example, I myself dislike going on runs (track/treadmill/etc.) that fulfill no practical travel purpose. Instead, I prefer incorporating running into my grocery shopping (empty backpack outbound, backpack filled with groceries inbound), which achieves a journey that I would have needed to go on anyway. I despise those who exercise in the gym but also drive cars everywhere. If they are willing to expend so much energy, why not expend part of it to drive less? Similarly, I despise even more those who exercise in the gym but also hire domestic help for cleaning the house. Why not clean the house yourself FFS? And so on.
Posted by: HikariDude
« on: September 14, 2025, 02:29:34 pm »

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/social-decolonization/msg21031/#msg21031
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A better definition of "improvement" would be low body fat (achievable through cardio exercises such as running/swimming), which would produce a physique similar to Arno Breker statues.

While exercise does make it easier for non-ectomorphs to look like ectomorphs, most gym freaks would rather prefer to look like mesomorphs (achievable through strength training exercises).

This is in contrast to the most popular exercise of the Counterculture era:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobic_exercise#History
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After World War II, health-oriented recreational activities such as jogging became popular.[19] The Royal Canadian Air Force Exercise Plans, developed by Dr. Bill Orban and published in 1961, helped to launch modern fitness culture.[20][21]

Physical therapists Col. Pauline Potts and Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper,[22] both of the United States Air Force, advocated the concept of aerobic exercise. In the 1960s, Cooper started research into preventive medicine. He conducted the first extensive research on aerobic exercise on over 5,000 U.S. Air Force personnel[23][24] after becoming intrigued by the belief that exercise can preserve one's health. In 1966 he coined the term "aerobics". Two years later, in 1968, he published a book of the same name. In 1970, he created the Cooper Institute for non-profit research and education devoted to preventive medicine. He published a mass-market version of his book The New Aerobics in 1979. Cooper encouraged millions into becoming active and is now known as the "father of aerobics".[25][26] Cooper's book inspired Jacki Sorensen to create aerobic dancing exercise routines, which grew in popularity in the 1970s in the U.S., and at the same time, Judi Missett developed and expanded Jazzercise.

In the 1970s, there was a running boom. It was inspired by the Olympics, the New-York marathon and the advent of cushioned shoes.[27]

Aerobics at home became popular worldwide after the release of Jane Fonda's Workout exercise video in 1982.[28][29] Step aerobics was popular in the 1990s, driven by a step product and program from Reebok shoes.
when ectomorphy was worshipped.

Aerobics/cardio can also be comparable to the stamina based labor of Neolithic subsistence farmers:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/aryan-hearts/

What do you think of aerobics?
Posted by: HikariDude
« on: March 28, 2025, 11:48:10 am »

Ok so I’m probably at the receiving end of when I was nervous to show up at the music topic back in summer 2023.
Speak of which, meet me at the music topic.
Posted by: HikariDude
« on: March 24, 2025, 08:26:07 pm »

“if by "surpass" you mean in terms of success, then I would not anticipate a correlation. If you mean in terms of quality, then of course I myself am partial to post-Counterculture works that pay nostalgic tribute to the Counterculture era.”
The latter. I agree, and I believe I stand, that it is important to be skeptical of Counterculture-influenced post-Counterculture works.

“If the intent is sincerely tribute, then the production can be expected to deliberately avoid overly contemporary elements. Whereas if the production incorporates these while claiming to be tribute, I would doubt the sincerity of the claim.”
“but for marketing they relied on a retro dance tour with local participation”
So basically pre-internet production/marketing. I can see even ‘Dance With Me’ incorporated minor internet use of marketing as well as heavy autotune in the production in the song itself. It seems these days, in order for something to be successful, the content may always need technology to produce and the internet to promote.
But from my experience, people do get the best enjoyment when they are not merely being entertained but spontaneously contributing.

“Aryan phenotype alert”
She kind of looks like one of the members of Perfume Ōmoto (though there are more photos of Ōmoto with a heavy jaw than that of of Miyoshi).
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 24, 2025, 07:20:27 pm »

"is it true that Counterculture-influenced post-Counterculture musicians may surpass non-Counterculture-influenced musicians of the same time"

Success is often unrelated to quality, so if by "surpass" you mean in terms of success, then I would not anticipate a correlation. If you mean in terms of quality, then of course I myself am partial to post-Counterculture works that pay nostalgic tribute to the Counterculture era.

"but gradually loses the quality of a melody (as well as lyrics, talent, and similar traits of a song/musician) to so called “quality” of production (as well as trends, marketing, and similar advantages unrelated to the song/musician)?"

If the intent is sincerely tribute, then the production can be expected to deliberately avoid overly contemporary elements. Whereas if the production incorporates these while claiming to be tribute, I would doubt the sincerity of the claim.

A movie that I consider the best post-Counterculture-era movie known to me is an overt Counterculture-era tribute:

https://yts.mx/movies/dance-with-me-2019

Not only are almost all the songs from the Counterculture era, but for marketing they relied on a retro dance tour with local participation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HNNxWJ2f9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrFS5XvrTXk

What do you think? (Also Aryan phenotype alert.)
Posted by: HikariDude
« on: March 24, 2025, 06:03:21 pm »

Continuing from:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/recommended-games-to-play/msg29643/#msg29643
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(Similarly Counterculture-influenced post-Counterculture era music may surpass non-Counterculture-influenced music in terms of songwriting and performance but gradually downgrade as production ‘quality’ and trends upgrade. But that can be continued in another topic)

Since you would not post any post-Counterculture music in the music topic, is it true that Counterculture-influenced post-Counterculture musicians may surpass non-Counterculture-influenced musicians of the same time but gradually loses the quality of a melody (as well as lyrics, talent, and similar traits of a song/musician) to so called “quality” of production (as well as trends, marketing, and similar advantages unrelated to the song/musician)?
Posted by: antihellenistic
« on: January 04, 2025, 10:24:23 pm »

https://youtu.be/EUEPDa7Ca2w?feature=shared

If many people consider this video "cute", they have no empathy. I'm even can't stand to see it because had it already happened, empathic living would prevail forever, there would be no oppression, ruthless competition, and live where belittling each other still exists...

Western Civilization ruin my entire life
Posted by: rp
« on: October 30, 2024, 02:19:15 pm »

After moving back to the U.S in 2008, was when I really realized something was **** up with the world. I remember hearing Zionist agent Alex Jones on the radio. I also remember being unable to relate to my peers, who were fans of 3D FPS games such as COD (Zionist war propaganda), while I was a fan of earlier Nintendo GameCube games. Only one of my peers was a fan of such games, so I was able to relate to him. He also introduced me to the 2D era of Nintendo games, which I wasn't even aware existed before, which sparked my interest in retro games. Never really got a chance to get my hands on retro games though, although I did enjoy some 3rd party flash fanmade games such as super Mario wars and Mario forever. I also remember watching some Ghibli films I rented at the library, such as Spirited Away and Castle in The Sky.
Posted by: Zhang Caizhi
« on: October 30, 2024, 06:20:45 am »

How about Doraemon? I and many Thai children grow around this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon

https://youtu.be/7X4k2A5rTsI
Posted by: rp
« on: October 30, 2024, 05:49:54 am »

It was aired in India during the mid 2000s, more than a decade after its initial release:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%27s_Castle#India
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A shortened version of the show aired on the Pogo TV channel starting from 1 March 2005, with Hindi dubbing by Jaaved Jaaferi.[12] Jaaved's hilarious commentary made the show an instant hit, and for a short duration, it also featured guest voiceovers by Indian comedians Raju Srivastav, Sunil Pal, Navin Prabhakar, and Ahsaan Qureshi.[13] The show aired on Pogo TV until 2019.

Amazon Prime Video's 2023 reboot of Takeshi's Castle was released on 2 November 2023, featuring the voice of Bhuvan Bam as his character "Titu Mama" from BB Ki Vines, taking over as the new commentator, replacing Jaaved Jaaferi. Bhuvan spent four months dubbing and writing the script for the show, with some promotional videos filmed in September

I didn't even know Hindi at the time but still found the show enjoyable.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Hitf1kBQ2o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hitf1kBQ2o&lc=UgwDaYefQOb0dd7L0Kd4AaABAg
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Remembering the days when I was stress free and undepressed. Late night watching takeshi's castle and FAQ💔💔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hitf1kBQ2o&lc=UgwX--_N865a4McH1Fx4AaABAg
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Today's kids will never understand the fun of this show, that time was different wen we would laugh like mad by seeing this show, missing this show so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hitf1kBQ2o&lc=UgwoKRYEVZoJ1gXkY7p4AaABAg
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Those days when i used to watch this, the only problem i had was going to school, darn loads of memos.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: October 30, 2024, 05:18:51 am »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaKzD6PE9tg

Takeshi's Castle was from the same period. Everything was looking up back then. TV drama openings captured this mood perfectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYu-VO7Gp8M

Posted by: rp
« on: October 27, 2024, 07:21:22 pm »

Takeshi's castle is a Japanese game show that used to be popular on Indian television:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%27s_Castle

Not exactly high quality content, but it was a good way to temporarily escape the misery that was compulsory schooling during my time in India.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: September 13, 2024, 09:10:15 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx24jvfJIl4

The unspoken metaphysical axiom of romantic storytelling is that there is precisely one person out there that you are meant to be with, and you either find them or you don't. If you find them, great! If you don't, at least you can say you waited for them and thus never betrayed them. The worst thing to do is give up the wait and settle for someone else, the act of betrayal which can never be taken back.

(This is in line with Gnosticism, which believes that monads got split into two pieces by Yahweh prior to being imprisoned in the material world, each of these half-monads being what we call souls. Each soul started out trying to find its original complementary half in order to recombine into a full monad which can then transcend the material world (provided they do not reproduce). Duets are the musical representation of this:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/is-counterculture-still-alive/msg18929/#msg18929

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/recommended-music-to-listen-to/msg21840/#msg21840 (and subsequent Duet Month posts))

Almost no one these days believes in this anymore, unfortunately.....