A slight change of pace for today's Eyecanday Monday, while I go into raptures about Takeshi Kaneshiro. No, I'm not mysteriously channelling Madelynne Ellis - though of course she got there long before me. What happened was that last week I went to see Red Cliff, the new John Woo movie, and I was much taken by the character of Zhuge Liang. Red Cliff is a terrific war movie (based on historic events) which we all enjoyed greatly and I totally recommend - if you're the sort of person who thought The Two Towers was pretty cool but really needed more battle scenes, then Red Cliff is the movie for you - but in the middle of all those macho warriors was the pivotal character of Zhuge Liang, who isn't a fighter but a strategist, Taoist geek and legendary smartarse. When he pulled off the "borrowing arrows" move I thought it so clever I fell in lurv.
Here, btw, is the same character (complete with crane-feather fan) as envisaged in comic form, from a computer game. He's pretty damn famous in China and Japan. And phwoar!
Anyway, it turns out the actor, Takeshi Kaneshiro, was actually one I noticed a while back when in the dawn of time I posted this picture from House of Flying Daggers to Lust Bites.
And in Asia he's a mega-star. Here he is looking young and purty:
Here he is looking Matrix:
Dig those lips! And here he is with long hair again. I am happy. I will even forgive the moustache.
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Ooh, lovely. You and me and Madelynne will all have to fight over him.
Now that we could probably sell tickets for.
;-)
And while you ladies are battling it out, I'll be sneaking him out the back door...
;)
He's lovely. I do so dig that blue black hair.
Yum. He does great Matrix. *_*
Now stealing him while I was away from home is just not fair. :)
You've got to see that film, Madelynne!
Hi, everyone. I just read the UK Guardian description for the running time of this cut. It confirms the rumor: Two movies (each part shown in Asia is over 2 hours long) have been cobbled together to make it "easier to digest" for Western audience. If you can get a hold of copies (not certain if it is region free as I have a compatible DVD player), it has English subs and is well worth spending the time.
Thanks Dolly. I did see that the Asian release was a longer 2-parter - the fuller plot details are all up on Wikipedia, which is useful. And I'll certainly be trying to buy the full version when it comes to DVD release.
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