Part of the joy of watch parties like #Monsterdon / #MonsterMiru is that an awful film can still be enjoyable as everyone riffs on it. But I can understand not wanting to spoil a treasured memory.

@perishthethought@piefed.social

(My Drama List often has the most alternate titles for East Asian films.)

• The Chinese Connection = 精武門 (1972) = Fist of Fury / Fist of Fury: The Chinese Connection / Fist of Fury 1 / The Iron Hand
  https://eggplant.place/movie/5DXKvEdpCOZ8HDYfHHmSfd
  https://mydramalist.com/3919-fist-of-fury

• Kung Fu: Punch of Death = 方世玉 (1972) = The Prodigal Boxer / Death Kick / Death Punch
  https://eggplant.place/movie/4Kd5wQX4iMXkrk7XlCfB7k
  https://mydramalist.com/70191-the-prodigal-boxer

• Dragon Princess = 必殺女拳士 (1976, not 1981 as on DVD cover) = Sonny Chiba’s Dragon Princess
  https://eggplant.place/movie/2Kpzf3JfibY8ToD5pkwpui
  https://mydramalist.com/20906-dragon-princess

• Samurai Reincarnation = 魔界転生 (1981)
  https://eggplant.place/movie/7WjM01YazPXAO9I7tWWuf6
  https://mydramalist.com/6227-samurai-reincarnation

• Snake-Crane Secret = 蛇鶴丹心震九洲 (1978) = Secret of the Dragon / Snake & Crane Secret / The Secret of the Snake and Crane
  https://eggplant.place/movie/0jnBL7PqDdg1yPGZlOCDcD
  https://mydramalist.com/704267-snake-crane-secret

• Duel of the Iron Fists = ??? There are two David Chiang films from 1971 (not 1972) with “duel” in the English titles. The description on the DVD cover is too generic to tell.

• • 大決鬥 (1971) = The Duel / The Duel of the Iron Fist [singular] / Iron Fist Pillage / Revenge of the Dragons
    https://eggplant.place/movie/73zlSBOPZGZ2BSuDhHIYAU
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duel_(1971_film)
    https://mydramalist.com/15365-the-duel
• • 拳擊 (1971) = Duel of Fists
    https://eggplant.place/movie/5Kbth4X7VkS7SX9G8B0Shn
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_of_Fists
    https://mydramalist.com/9007-duel-of-fists

• Legend of the Eight Samurai = 里見八犬伝 (1983)
  https://eggplant.place/movie/3WtHfCmcRKnFflCpVSRksb
  https://mydramalist.com/6236-legend-of-the-eight-samurai

• Militant Eagle = 俠大兒乞 (1978) = Boxer’s Adventure / Great Soldier Wins A General
  https://eggplant.place/movie/3LPkDyahvMCnnmy89eJz6N
  https://mydramalist.com/9193-boxers-adventure

• Dragon Lee vs The Five Brothers = 오대 제자 (1978) = Fury Of Dragon / The Angry Dragon / The Five Brothers
  https://eggplant.place/movie/09zamzIpiEyYVIVrpqSHwe
  https://mydramalist.com/67087-dragon-lee-vs-five-brothers

I’ve only seen two, FIst of Fury, & Legend of the Eight Samurai. I watched that in #MonsterMiru watch party last October. It was on pretty late so I don’t remember much except it was pretty bonkers, & rated it 2.5/5.

The Chinese Connection is the US title for 精武門 (1972), English title elsewhere Fist of Fury, i.e. my favourite of Bruce Lee’s Golden Harvest output. Definite keeper.

I’ll have check out the other ones (& any alternate titles that I might know them by). Good excuse to add a bunch of films to my wishlist 😁

Relevant Spaced clips

https://youtu.be/GgwYr-aDEEY

https://youtu.be/OTDt5PuETLA

Doh! Need read when brain work right

1st time I’ve seen it, tropey but fun

I hadn’t realized there was a copy on YT.

I notice that’s 9 minutes shorter than the standard. It’s also got “HK theatrical subtitles”*, and the translation quality of those is usually… godawful 😆

*HK law back then (maybe still) said films shown in cinemas had to have subtitles in both Chinese and English. But the law never said they had to be any good!

There’s a little bit of Mr Vampire-style spells with chicken blood stuff, but this actually goes with Western-style vampires, not hopping goengsi.

Sammo Hung’s Encounters of the Spooky Kind really kickstarted the action-horror-comedy genre in HK and is definitely worth checking out.

https://eggplant.place/movie/79bgibQ35BW3UG4I0IzrTx

It’s a Russian site (part of VK, the social media giant there) and IIRC Russia specifically passed a law removing copyright from “hostile” nations, i.e. ones that participate in sanctions.

Maybe technically legal in Russia but probably nowhere else.

I don’t ordinarily look for stuff there, but I got so frustrated yesterday trying to find stuff in my wishlist (only 1 in 20 available thru licensed sites) I resorted to it.

But I understand not wanting such links, I won’t post any more OK.ru.

The gear icon down at the bottom, under “Continue your search…”

Cool, looking forward to those features

Looks interesting! Will keep trying it over the next few days.

1. I’ve already changed the “Continue your search” settings to disable Google & Chat GPT; enabled DDG. Nice to have the option.
2. Maybe add Marginalia support for small web / indie web results?
3. I searched for a film title & was pleasantly surprised to see results for streaming sources. Is there a way to get it to return streaming results available in my country?

You’re right, thanks for the catch!

I love the added dynamism from Calvin (and the bat) breaking the frames.

In Argentina, they’re called the Semalvinas

I didn’t get hit by the paywall when I read it. Just tried to get a paywall-free link thru the Wayback Machine, and even that DID get hit by the paywall :(

https://web.archive.org/web/20260705150548/https://www.theverge.com/tech/959848/bittorrent-story-25-years-piracy

YW 😃

In Troy, the political standoff remains unresolved. After the city council voted to block funding for the cameras, Mantello declared a state of emergency to renew the contract

The blatant lies to try to get around any restraint on their power

The heavy hand of the mainland censors is why any film or show even attempting to be interesting has to be set abroad or in the past to try to get some jeopardy, which of course can’t exist in the perfect paradise the Party has brought the people. And then when, as a direct result, 90% of stuff ends up being about office girls time-travelling to Dynasty X, Y or Z , they ban that too 😂

Tried watching Heroes (2020) with Vincent Zhao, but after enduring two episodes, I just couldn’t any more. Even with the “get-out clause” of being set before the PRC, and a budget greater than the GDP of some small nations, it was deathly dull with every major character (exclusively male) spending 90% of their time being tiresomely worthy & virtuous. I’d rather watch Zhao in Fong Saiyuk a thousand times than one more episode of Heroes.