PHANTOM FIGHTER | Famicom Adventures #12
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2021
- Lam Ching-ying remains one of the few Hong Konger actors with an 8-bit sprite made in his likeness.
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Playlist: • Famicom Adventures
Soundtrack uploaded to RUclips by Autumn Weston:
• Phantom Fighter / Reig...
Hello Dracula clips:
• Video
Kyonshies 2 footage
• キョンシーズ2【ファミコン 3分プレイング ...
Scans of promotional art:
horrorjapan.tumblr.com/post/1...
www.retromags.com/gallery/ima...
I use footage of these video games:
Reigen Dōshi (Marionette, 1988) / Phantom Fighter (1990)
Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson (Tamsoft, 2015)
Final Fight (Capcom, 1989)
Mighty Final Fight (Capcom, 1993)
Darkstalkers 3 (Capcom, 1997)
Family Trainer: Rai Rai Kyonshies (Bandai, 1989)
Pachio-kun 5 (C-Dream, 1993)
Sotsugyou Shashin (Cocktail Soft, GX Media, 1994)
Hissatsu Dōjō Yaburi (Sigma, 1989)
Kyonshies 2 (Taito, 1987) • キョンシーズ2【ファミコン 3分プレイング ...
I also use footage from:
Mr. Vampire (1985)
Nosferatu (1922)
Dracula (Universal, 1931) • Favorite part in Dracu...
Mr. Vampire II (1986)
Mr. Vampire III (1987)
Mr. Vampire IV (1988)
Vampire vs. Vampire (1989)
Urusei Yatsura episode 76 • Video
Project A-ko (1986)
Reading:
“Hopping Vampires and the Unibrowed Priest Who Hates Them”
diaboliquemagazine.com/hoppin...
“Chinese Hopping Vampires”
www.historyanswers.co.uk/peop...
Chuang journal:
chuangcn.org/journal/one/
Sources on Hironari Tadokoro:
/ 1071702181714120704
/ rerere_rec
rerere-rec.booth.pm/
vndb.org/s5142
Sources on Yuji Moriyama:
/ neconoko
www.animenewsnetwork.com/ency...
• Video
/ 829296556868243457 
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Director’s commentary!!
I considered including a little tangent about Lam Ching-ying, but decided against it. Why did I include segments on the composer and animator, but not Lam Ching-ying? This is because the video is supposed to be about the Famicom game Reigen Doushi, not its source material. For those interested, Lam Ching-ying was an actor who, after theater declined with the growing popularity of cinema, became a martial arts instructor and stuntman. Apparently, he often did stunts in place of female actors. Although Lam had worked with Bruce Lee, he was not exactly a star before Mr. Vampire but afterwards spent the rest of his career battling jiangshi. The most bizarre of these vampire films is Crazy Safari. Have you ever seen the 1980 South African comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy? It involves the hunter-gatherer Xi, played by the late Nǃxau ǂToma (whom, as you might guess, was not late at the time), who tries to walk to the edge of the world to dispose of a Coke bottle that has brought strife to his village. Along the way, it turns out that modern society is completely irrational and bizarre, though not in any way political enough to risk offending the audience. I mean, this thing was made under literal apartheid! It is quite interesting to see a high-budget, non-anthropological film starring an actual San man. In any case, Crazy Safari is an unofficial sequel in which Lam Ching-ying’s Daoist priest, though not unibrowed, ends up in the Kalahari with Xi battling a hopping vampire. Mr. Vampire IV is the first and, I think, only installment of the series or its spinoffs not to feature Lam Ching-ying. While IV is probably the best Mr. Vampire since the original, the characters still fall flat without the unibrowed Daoist. Lam Ching-ying’s character, though harsh, seems genuinely goodhearted in a way that makes him stand out in the later films especially, where almost every other character is cruel, incompetent, deceitful, abusive, ludicrously irrational, and generally contemptable. Removing him from IV leaves us only with characters who are largely less charismatic, though IV does have a scene where a guy apologizes to a girl using an adorable chibi drawing, so they aren't all bad. After the underwhelming II and III, Vampire vs. Vampire is also surprisingly good. Sadly, the Mr. Vampire series came to an end with Lam Ching-ying’s untimely death to cancer at the age of 44. But its legacy lives in basically every portrayal of jiangshi ever since.
8:33 Ah, some baby’s first sociological reading of folklore. Family Trainer: Rai Rai Kyonshies is a Power Pad game. Some people on the internet got fixated on a mysterious page from an old catalogue that listed an upcoming NES game called “Yeah Yeah Beebiss,” and now a lot of them believe this might have been a scrapped localization of Rai Rai Kyonshies, since the full title is something like “Rai Rai Kyonshies: Baby Kyonshi’s Great Ladder Adventure” and “Baby” (ベビー bebii) might have been mangled into “Beebiss.” I might make a video about this one.
12:56 Note the misplaced ground tile levitating in the night sky in this scene.
Creating this video involved an alarming amount of re-recording audio. I recorded the entire script twice. Though both recordings had superior audio at different parts, I mostly used the second version. In particular, I must have recorded the lines from 24:19 on like six times. I was so sick of them by the end! I also repeatedly expanded and contracted these last minutes, further complicating the process. For example, in some versions I devoted a sentence or two to Project A-ko’s director Nishijima Katsuhiko, who went on to direct quite a few anime notable for their extreme density of panty shots. Wikipedia claims Nishijima took the Project A-ko job so he could buy dentures.
19:36 The ax-wielding boss might be based on the bandits from Mr. Vampire III. If so, this might more firmly imply that Obo the witch is the big bad, as opposed to controlling only the last village, because the witch in Mr. Vampire III is the leader of the bandits.
27:22 The guy in blue I’m fighting in this clip has a character portrait that is not only hideously ugly but also shows a swastika on his forehead!
The fun part about this video was watching all these Mr. Vampire movies and then Project A-ko. Digging into old eroge for the Tadokoro segment was fun too, and tantalizing, as I could find little in terms of footage of these video games online, their obscurity compounded by most video websites’ refusal of sexual content. The less fun part was finding the Mr. Vampire movies. They’re like forty bucks for each Blu-ray! Yikes! They also seem to be widely pirated on assorted websites, including RUclips, where I watched the original Mr. Vampire while ironically waiting for my Blu-ray of it to arrive. Magic Cop doesn’t seem to be available anywhere, but I found an upload onto like Vimeo or something. Didn’t actually watch it though.
Great video, I love how well read you are on the subject matter. I've been a fan of this stuff since the 80's so this video was very enjoyable. 👍
I played Phantom Fighter NES years ago. I wondered why there was so much destruction to the buildings, especially in the later levels. You provided the possible explanation. When it comes to the swords, I tend to alternate between the sword strikes and kicking. This can be good against the boss that charges through the park like Superman.
I am often impressed to see "Gwei Lo" who likes Hopping vampire and even know the lore, this type of HK movie is basically a dead genre now, especially after Lam Ching Ying death, although there been a few attempts to revive it and even had a lookalike of Lam Ching Ying do a vampire movie few years ago. I think the real final jumping vampire movie from HK is called "Rigor Mortis" which is basically a "Goodbye" movie to this genre.
Well in gameplay wise, when you duck, I kinda imagine that Uncle 9 is holding his breath, since a jumping vampire follow human breathing, if you hold your breath, they can't find you.
Anyways during the 1980's Japan the movie Mr Vampire/Reigen Doushi become a real huge hits in Japan and thus there was alot of merchandise based on Kyonshis ranging from softplushies to sticker in chibi form thus the box art of this game. Also during that time period there was alot of Jumping Vampire movies that not starring Lam Ching Ying but has jumping vampire as characters. But as all fad goes, it kinda died down before the 90's
When I was in the 3rd grade i actually went trick-or-treating as Kenchi from Phantom Fighter lol. I'm probably the only person in the history of America to do so, now that i think about it lmao
Phantom Fighter cosplay
thank you for this detailed video on this game, 1 of my fav game, its a pity this video didnt get the attention as this game & the movie is not that popular in the US
Fucking top tier video
This was one of my favourite games growing up, so its amazing to see a great video on it, you deserve a million views
This is the sort of feedback I like to hear heheheh
Never knew this existed - kind of surprised it got localized. The combat animations do look pretty good, but yeah, I imagine this would be pretty repetitive to play for a long period of time, lol. Oh well
Fun video what you up to man?
Editing videos and looking for an apartment mostly