• Jeom@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    stephen chow is so famous here in asia that i forget he makes b movies, was surprised to see a stephen chow movie here

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      7 months ago

      I’ve seen Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer here in the U.S. They were a lot of fun. And holy shit, I just read that he made the highest-grossing and second-highest grossing films in China.

      Also, this bit from his Wikipedia page is amusing:

      In 2013, Stephen Chow was elected a member of the 11th Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).[39] According to media exposure, Chow often arrives late and leaves early at the conference, and has not put forward any proposals.[40]