Eyecandy Monday

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.