Water Margin

And whereas in the play, it's like they're always in Japan, and also it-- from the time of Zheng Zhulong, so the, the father, like, was a loyal minister to the old Ming dynasty emperor, and, uh, he warned against the unrighteous ministers, you know, the, the corrupt ministers.

There were corrupt ministers everywhere, and just like in The Water Margin, you know.

And, uh, Zheng Zhulong was a good minister, and he was warning about the corrupt ones, but he got slandered and kicked out of China, and that's why he came to Japan and, you know, married a Japanese woman.

And it's interesting, they, they talk about nationality in interesting ways, of course.

He's gonna take care of her, and then, um, there is a cool scene with another female warrior.

We love these female warriors.

They're going, you know, on the opera scene from Ariosto, right, from Orlando Furioso, all the way across Eurasia, through all those female warriors in The Water Margin, and then to the battles of Koksenga in Japan.

We have, uh, this warrior, Liu Huajun, who fights to the death, um, to give a chance to escape to Princess Xiantan, the s- again, the sister of the dead emperor, right? Uh, and she pushes her off in, in a boat to float to Japan, and she arrives in Japan.

Corwin mentioned that co-founders of Bioware had really wanted to make a game kind of since Bioware's inception where you get to play as a martial arts master.

According to Wikipedia, the inspirations for the game's plot included classic Chinese novels like Outlaws of the Marsh, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Journey to the West.

In addition to Strange Stories from a Chinese studio and Lone Wolf and Cub, things like that.

They also drew a lot of inspiration from the wuxia genre of films.

He's been in many other films as well, but now I think after his performances in films like Sex and Zen and Aviva Erotica, Chinese torture chamber films, he's been typecast as a softcore porno actor.

He actually began his career at Shaw Brothers and then later became really a versatile character player in both gangster epics and period films like Dragon Gate Inn, the remake of Dragon Gate Inn, and his biggest role in All Men Are Brothers, which was a film based on the Chinese classic The Water Margin.

He was actually nominated at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his performance then.

But he's kind of not really thought of anymore as being like an actor's actor, more as a softcore star of films like Sex and Zen.

So also another thing you should mention, he was in one of the last films of this studio, Cinema City, playing a character called Inspector Bong in the movie Undeclared War.

I mean, Inspector Bong should be a character in a Cheech and Chong movie, I think.

The guy on the right there is Gong Lao, and a star of classic swordplay films such as King Hu's The Valiant Ones and John Woo's Last Ra for Chivalry, a prolific actor at TVB.

And this guy on the right stepping into frame is Roy Cheung.