r/Sino • u/bjran8888 • 1d ago
other Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, and Wu Jing will star together in a film titled 1941, which is set during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941.
https://movie.douban.com/subject/38364681/
Starring
Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Daniel Wu, Charmaine Sheh
Special Guest Stars
Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Wu Jing
Returning Veterans
Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-ping, Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu
Special Appearances by Award-winning Actors
Andy Lau, Francis Ng, Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Jerry Lamb, Michael Tse, Jason Chu
Crossover Appearances
Tsui Hark (Director), Stanley Tong (Director), Stephen Tung Wai
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u/jeremiah15165 1d ago
This should be an amazing movie, Tsui Hark cinematography is gorgeous and Stanley Tong is amazing at action flicks
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u/Karmacop5908 1d ago
If Japanese nationalists seethe and get offended by this movie then you’ll know it’s good.
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u/Misogynist-youth 1d ago
Woah... Reading the poster, that's quite the line up of mostly legacy stars
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u/iHate_RonEbens 1d ago
More of these please! Also more of western colonizers who tried China. Also wish more Chinese actors start using their Chinese name instead
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u/seafoodhater 9h ago
Also wish more Chinese actors start using their Chinese name instead
I'm glad I'm not alone in this.
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u/dwaynebathtub 1d ago
Back to 1942 is one of the best movies I've ever seen.
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u/KevlarCord 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yes, back to 1942 is a film that makes you appreciate how things like pride and honour are concepts that get meaningless quite quick after a major disaster or breakdown of society occurs.
1942 is a film that makes the characters make the hard choices without sugarcoating it. Like a family that decides that the mother (she was the one who insisted on it) has to starve to death so that the father and daughter can at least survive. A mother having to sell her daughter to some sleazy wealthy brothel owner, because the only other option was starvation. Or another couple where the wife decides to sell herself off for a small bag of rice so that her husband can live. Basically any of the Chinese characters are trying to survive by any way possible no matter how humiliating and/or dehumanizing it is for them. Survival and the survival of your loved ones is what solely matters at the end of the day. The film captures that sentiment beautifully, and truely makes you appreciate how the sacrifices and suffering of our ancestors laid the path to where we are now. And we as descendants of these great men and women have the duty to carry that mentality forward, we owe them and our ancestors that much at least.
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u/technobrendo 23h ago
I'd be amazing if they could have gotten some other foreign actors to do guest spots or background characters . Like Tony Jaa or Iko Uwais
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Starring
Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Daniel Wu, Charmaine Sheh
Special Guest Stars
Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Wu Jing
Returning Veterans (Seven Little Fortunes & seniors)
Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-ping, Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu
Special Appearances by Award-winning Actors
Andy Lau, Francis Ng, Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Jerry Lamb, Michael Tse, Jason Chu
Crossover Appearances
Tsui Hark (Director), Stanley Tong (Director), Stephen Tung Wai
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