Tony Leung Chiu-wai
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Sep 21, 2026
Seamus2389HOST
I admit, no, what's actually got me thinking of this is I was like, I was on like Chunking Express today and we're like showing it here.
Seamus2389HOST
And it's like, he's got goldfish in Tony, in the second part, Tony Leung's character is like goldfish.
Seamus2389HOST
And then I was like, is there like goldfish in a lot of like random Hong Kong movies?
darfox8HOST
I mean, that movie is really iconic.
IanHOST
And he mentioned that a few months after hearing it on the podcast, he came across a Blu-ray and immediately snagged it up to discover it was nothing short of masterful.
IanHOST
And he thinks that the two leads, Tang Wei and Tony Leung, were incredible in the roles.
IanHOST
And he saw a lot of the same things I saw in it.
IanHOST
So glad that you loved both those movies, Christopher.
Frank PeliconeHOST
Anyway, I don't want to shit on the movie.
Frank PeliconeHOST
It stars a guy named Jaden Yuan, who's a like wushu martial arts athlete um and then a bunch of other like notable martial arts like actors um i don't know if you would know him or not but like uh tony tony leung is in it
Chris GasperHOST
okay
Frank PeliconeHOST
and then um some other people uh eddie eddie pang who i've seen in some stuff and um uh who's the other guy that i knew uh steven fong And then some other people that I recognized.
9 MINS LATER
Frank PeliconeHOST
I'm not a huge fan of most mainstream Chinese... wide-release... big budget comedy action movies
speaker_2UNKNOWN
because
Frank PeliconeHOST
there's a lot of them and they're usually like kind of cringy um and this movie's got a huge amount of like fourth wall breaking like they're they'll like superimpose diagrams of like foot movements and stuff and I don't know they do all this shit like with special effects and when they introduce any character they put like who the actor's name is of the character and where you should know him from um it was kind of see tony leung i always like seeing tony leung like still sure working in 2006 he looks like he's like like 35 i mean that's not a goal um but you know what it was actually it was it was it was a fun movie it was fine you know i i didn't think any of the humor really landed but i don't know i have that trouble with Like, it's weird because,
Chris GasperHOST
like, I watch a lot of Thai comedies
Justin DeclouxHOST
I watched The Magnificent Butcher, A Better Tomorrow, and Hard Target.
Justin DeclouxHOST
The airline has even conducted special interviews, including Yuwo Ping, Tony Leung, and Kenji Tanigaki of The Furious, mostly about their latest films.
Justin DeclouxHOST
Tony Leung's latest film is called Silent Friend, and it's a German movie about a tree.
Justin DeclouxHOST
It looks pretty, so I decided that I might watch it at home.
Justin DeclouxHOST
Which brings me to, what are your ideal plane movies? For me, on the typical American catalog, I think studio comedies and sharp dramas work great.
DhruvHOST
Yeah,
CrisHOST
and I found out recently only, there's a clip apparently of Tony, there's an interview of Tony Leung and he said that the film wasn't meant to be, he wasn't meant to be queer in the film.
CrisHOST
It was supposed to be him going to Argentina after his father's passing and he finds out that his father was having an affair with Leslie Chung.
DevarsiGUEST
And then
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
We'll just kind of put it on the side and see what we end up getting.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
Tony Leung.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
Oh, there we go.
Laura-Lynn Tyler ThompsonHOST
I'll turn that off.
Rick MyersHOST
I mean, there are other Hong Kong directors who are versatile, but not to the degree, I feel, that Johnny To is in terms of the quality of each of the kinds of films that he attempts.
Frank DjengGUEST
This is, um, Aaron Kwok, famous Hong Kong pop singer here, playing the, um, playing the Tony character.
Frank DjengGUEST
And right away you notice that, um, all the actors are doing their own judo stunts.
Frank DjengGUEST
It's because that's what Johnny To demanded.
Frank DjengGUEST
You know-
Rick MyersHOST
Mm-hmm
Frank DjengGUEST
... you can see his face clear, you can see, you can see him clearly, but whereas- Louis Koo is always being shot in a, in a darkness, in a shadow, and that's kind of like the equivalent of showing, you know, Aaron, Aaron's char- the Tony character, he, he, he's seen the light, you know?
Rick MyersHOST
Mm-hmm.
Frank ChanHOST
Notice the darkened dojo with no students, the empty board, uh, you know, the, um, past glory gone, and also a representative of Hong Kong in decline after SARS.
Frank ChanHOST
Now we see the introduction of the Tony Leung character.
Frank ChanHOST
Um, sorry, not Tony Leung, um, Aaron Kwok character, [laughs] Aaron Kwok character, whose name is Tony in the film.
Frank ChanHOST
Um, Aaron Kwok was a TV actor.
Frank ChanHOST
Uh, he, he actually, um, was als- He started out as a dancer in, in the Hong Kong network TVB, and then he later went, you know, he was making commercials, and then he went to, um, Taiwan and make a name for himself with various albums.
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Frank ChanHOST
Uh, one was they were expecting a huge action film.
Frank ChanHOST
You know, they look at the cast.
Frank ChanHOST
Oh, you have, you know, Louis Koo, you have Aaron Kwok, you have, uh, Tony Leung Ka-fai.
Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
And in 226 BC, Yan submitted to Qin, and that was the end of them.
Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
If you'd like to see a movie version of these events, may I humbly suggest Chen Kaige's The Emperor and the Assassin starring Gong Li, as well as Zhang Yimou's Hero with megastars Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheng, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi, and Donnie Yen starring.
Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
That was a good one.
Laszlo MontgomeryHOST
No shortage of star power in that film.
DesHOST
Fair enough.
DesHOST
So yeah, it's got Andy Lau as Ming and then Tony Leung as Yan.
DesHOST
Yeah.
DesHOST
So I had a budget of $6.4 million.
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