kind of weird you didnt make an essay about "The Raid" franchise since they raised the bar for R-rated action movies years ago and people are still being mesmerized buy those lame jon wick sequels in wich they manage to turn talents like Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian and Scott Adkins into jokes
"My friends were sweeter than any imported chocolates" Gosh, I was not expecting to end up crying on a video about what people watched growing up but that one line made me think of all my best friends who are no longer alive and just made me so sad at losing them but happy at all the sudden rush of memories that simple line opened up.
childhood friendship is purest of all, especially for us little boys, we probe each other's hobbies, interests and inclinations tantatively, if something click, friendship formed almost in a instant. Such magical connection is almost complete disconnected from adult world and daily mundanes, sort like a little paradise suddenly appears from this unexpected connection, full of possibilities even if you don't know what they might contain, you just want to explore, share and add to it. it gives you courage, confidence and some form of identity, I don't want to romantisize my selective memory, but it feels devine and ritual like when I remember about it.
What a heartfelt video. I was born on the opposite side of the world (Brooklyn 82) and don't recognize 90% of the movies, yet the nostalgia I felt, reminiscing about growing up in the 90's, and the idea of the future can only get better. Thank you.
Even for me, a millennial that grew up just across the strait in Taiwan, I don't know most of the films. Mulan is the only one that I've watched from start to finish, and I've seen snippets of two others when they were on TV.
so I wasn't the only one with the naive thought that the future can only get better lol, man I wish I had even the tiniest bit of that simple hope in me nowadays
Brooklyn, born in 84 - first Bay Ridge then Williamsburg My parents always rented things for us, likely because they were desperately homesick. I remember the Canto dubs of a lot of Disney and anime, HK pop music (and the karaoke videos that went with them), TVB series and plenty of HK movies. We lived hand to mouth but my parents didn’t have any vices, like smoking or gambling, so considering it was before the internet and we didn’t live in NYC Chinatown, my access to Cantonese language popular media was really high. My dad was 💯 a Stephen Chow fan and he will still randomly quote them to me. Growing up the way I did, close to my language and culture because my parents could not bear to watch their children become American, is a unique privilege. As I’ve gotten older, I realise that it’s not something that every family has access to, if you grew up without access to a thriving Chinese diasporic community
I've always heard that Mulan (1998) was heavily criticized in China back then for being inaccurate to the source material. But clearly, children didn't care as long as they're entertained.
You miss the nationalism element as Chinese government media hated the fact that white capitalists were monetizing our cultural legacy and doing it in such a bastardized way.
No idea what you’re talking about since Mulan (1998) appears to be one of the most popular Disney movies ever in China. I hear the complete opposite- that is was faithful (as far as movies can be) go the story of Mulan. It’s the live action remake that appears to not have been faithful to the story
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson The animated film reportedly flopped in China. Wikipedia says "Chinese people also complained about Mulan's depiction as too foreign-looking and the story as too different from the myths" based on two articles from the late 90s.
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Also, many fans theorized that the live-action remake was made different from the "original" in order to appeal more to Chinese audiences. It's been confirmed that Mushu's absence is due to his negative reception in China. There've been many adaptations of the source material in that country, and none resemble the 1998 Disney version, as far as I know.
I'm from Melbourne, Australia and I remember in the 90's as a 13 year old kid at the video store in 1994 seeing the international section of movies, my favorite were the Hong Kong action movies or Martial Art movies, I was blown away with movies such as John Woo's The Killer, Hard Boiled or any of his movies as he has an artistic eye, I also borrowed a lot of Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat movies back then and now I own them in my movie collection on physical media like DVD and Blu-ray, as I grew older I appreciate other genres from China and all over Asia, now I own thousands in my movie collection even though I don't speak their language I only speak English but I watch them in their original language with English Subtitles as the actors performances come more authentic compared to badly dubbed English versions.
One of the reasons I love watching and commenting on AC's videos is because a lot of his experiences are a little or extremely similar to my own. I remember watching very old movies with my family, choosing video tapes, buying DVDs, or picking a TV channel that had a movie I wanted to watch. Those were amazing times, and someday, I hope I get to share some of my personal experiences, because I love cinema. A lot.
Growing up in Taiwan in the 90s, I mostly watched cartoon network, disney movies and anime like Doraemon, Pokemon, detective conan, Chuuka Ichiban!, Akazukin Chacha, Getter Robo Armageddon, Getter Robo Armageddon, Slayers, Future GPX Cyber Formula. I did watch some chinese shows like the hong kong version of 笑傲江湖 or the 80s 西遊記 but mostly only because my father watched them.
I want to ask, why do you romanize your surname with Hanyu Pinyin? I know it’s been officially adopted since 2009 in Taiwan, but aren’t personal names usually romanized with the Wade-Giles system? For example, Xie would be Hsieh in Wade-Giles.
This makes me think back to my earliest memory in a movie theater: watching The Lion King at 5 years old. I will never forget the stampede/death of Mufasa scene. It’s one of those memories that could only be created at that one place-in-time for me. The Disney Renaissance was special.
I do have the same communal memory, when I was young my family went to see a local premiere of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and we could not sit together, I was for the first time, off by my self sitting next to a boy about my age I didn't know, he wasn't sitting with his family either, but I had popcorn and he had pop so we shared, and we were riveted to the screen, hopping up and down in our seats, and in one of the very few times this has happened, when the film ended, the audience stood up and all applauded at once, it's one of the great memories of my life and why I also studied film and continue to be intrigued by it to this day, I am grateful for having access to so many modern films from all over the world that I can watch on streaming.
I do remember the friends i watched movies with as well: my poor mother watching Jurassic Park with me for the 500th time, laughing with friends about some jokes in Austin Powers, rewinding it back and laughing again, watching Hot Shots 2 while my father and his friend are talking about something and then they burst out laughing about a joke i didnt got as a kid, sitting with my big teenage love in the theaters in a group and catching her looking at me and smiling... , chilling with my former roommate and watching Lord of the rings (both trying not to cry at the end) .... damn. its beautiful.
Chinese-Indonesian here. I am a fan of the Shaolin Popey series. I remember Jimmy Lin, a Taiwanese actor/singer, sang the ost. I often listened to the songs Xin Yun and Yong Bu Hui Tou, which always brought back my memories of the 90s. Another movie from the same era, played by Shaolin Popey's cast (Jimmy Lin and Boboho), is Grandpa's Love. The film was depressing as f and dealt with topics like dying, suicide, etc. It traumatized me to this day, almost 30 years later. At the time, I assumed it was a sequel to Shaolin Popey, and I thought to myself, what a weird sequel. Shaolin Popey is a non-sensical slapstick influenced by Stephen Chow's humor with a bit of a feel-good romance movie, but Grandpa's Love is about how two orphaned boys deal with grief after their parents die in a plane crash. The elder, despite trying to cope with his depression over the loss and being treated harshly by his absentee grandpa, who constantly blames him for almost everything and provides no emotional support during the period, still tries to look after the younger brother. At the movie's end, the grandpa acknowledges his mistake when he finds the big brother died after accidentally falling to a cliff. Grandpa's Love ruined Shaolin Popey for me because I cannot re-watch the latter without reminding myself about the former.
The 90's film industry from both East and West were truly something else. Going up in the 90s myself, a lot of these films are such a blast from the past. I grew up watching a lot of Hong Kong films, my parents use to be huge movie buffs in 90s.
Funny thing, Shakespeare was actually famous for writing plays for the masses. The reason it's considered high culture today is because the language is from 1500.
I'm a Chinese 80s kid (1983). My dad got to go to university in Sweden. So, me and my mother emigrated to Sweden in 1989. I never got to grow up in China in the 90s. Even though every vacation and the savings went to visiting China as often as we could. It was hard enough trying to fit in as the only Asian kid on the block and I didn't really get in touch with my Chinese roots until the late 2000s. It's interesting getting this insight from you. I think I've watched most of the things you showed at a later age. My first Disney movie was Aladdin in 1992 with Swedish dub. I didn't even know Swedish that well at the time and it's still my favourite Disney movie.
Man I’m a part of the early 00后 and Prince Nezha from Shanghai animation studio was my favourite animation as a kid. I even got a hula hoop and those dancing ribbon toy that they sell at the side of the street to imitate his golden hoop and red ribbon! I think Lotus Lantern was some of the last good animation to come out of the studio before the dark ages of Chinese animation in the 2010’s. But now I think Chinese animation is making a comeback with shows like Yao Chinese Folktales, Link Click, Under One Person and movies like the Legend of Hei, Nezha (2020ish) and Chang An. It’d be amazing if this channel could cover the rise and fall and (hopefully) rise again of Chinese animation!!
As a little kid, I saw the Disney “Aladdin” in theaters and the images, feelings, and the reaction of the audience has stayed with me. Many other movies have informed my personal tastes, but that first experience was seminal in a way. At the end of the “Friend Like Me” song, the audience cheered, and I did too.
One of my earliest memories of going to the cinema was for a school trip back in Primary School. Even though I lived somewhere that was only a short drive from an Omniplex, our class was taking a trip to the only IMAX cinema in the country: Cineworld Dublin. We were going to see Fantasia 2000 for our art class, to get a cultural afternoon of classical music and animation. I recall going through a UV hallway, watching the film on a giant screen, and getting a fright during the Firebird Suite segment (When the bird awakens and that sting occurs). The only other noteworthy thing was getting a trailer for CyberWorld; a lost anthology film that was a showcase for CGI. Weird how I can remember this, and yet none of the algebra or long division I had to learn for maths. Goes to show the impact of cinema, how watching something in a theatre with a blaring sound system and gigantic screen can't compare to watching something on your own at home.
I really love this, as a lot of my Chinese-American childhood was full of kung fu movies. I haven't heard anyone talk about the Shaolin Popey movies before this video so that was a real great blast from my past. Thanks for sharing this
Man, I grew up on Shanghai animation film studio stuff, too. Two big ones that influenced me as a kid were Black Cat Detective and the Calabash Brothers, besides the other well known ones. And I know I grew up on the stories of Afanti, though I don't know if they started with the film Shangai animation did.
Far East Theatre was special for the community. It gave us weekend all day matinees (triple headers, never cleared the seats,) notorious with ghost sightings, and 3-cat midnight showings. Sad to see its demise.
I'm from Malaysia and I recognize most of the movies featured in this video. TV stations back then can't stop showing those movies in the 90s and early 2000s.
I've seen Disney's Mulan plenty of times, but I don't think it ever gave me goosebumps like your description of seeing it for the first time did. Your memories transported me. The part where she climbs up the pole really is great. The clips from Shanghai Animation movies are beautiful! I wonder if I can find some of them online to watch for myself...
Imagine the excitement of suddenly going from watching black and white movies that came out in your parents childhood to watching Disney's Mulan, what a amazing day that mush have been for everyone. Also, Hollywood somehow manged to do this a second time with Kung Fu Panda's success
lmao the second you mentioned liking the Canto dub of Mulan I instantly searched who the VA was because I recognized that voice immediately. Disney is really good at their casting choices. I have vivid memories of my parents recording the Canto dub of various Disney films on VHS like Snow White and Cinderella. Just the whole process of having to write down the times of when the movie would play on the TVB channel, knowing when to press "Record", and then rewinding it later to watch. Now they take on a nostalgic feel because while the English obviously matches well, to me the Canto dub is where my memories are. Also omg I had no idea Coco Lee did the dub for the Taiwanese Mulan. Rest in peace Coco..😞 her death was in the HK newspapers and my parents were talking about her.
Some friends and I saw The Force Awakens on opening night. In our small mountain town, the line snaked back along the block: don't think I've ever seen it that long. The movie may have been a bit of a disappointment, but the memories are some of my favorites because of how much we all were looking forward to it, and for all the little moments with the people around us. My friends' little brother shoved a whole pizza box up the front of his hoodie to see if he could get away with sneaking it in (if I remember right, he did). Somebody else snuck in a Death Star beach ball: when we were all seated, the crowd spiked it back and forth all across the room. There was universal "aww" of disappointment as the usher took it away. Then pure excitement as the lights went down. Good time.
I don't recall many memories from my childhood, but I do remember the feeling of watching a good movie with my classmates from the crappy Promethean projector in our classroom. In elementary school, the teachers would sometimes play a random movie for us. We'd have no idea what to expect; all we knew was the movie's name. I think I recall kids asking the teacher what the movie was about, & the teacher would simply say, "You'll see." It felt like everyone was being united for a moment just to be captivated by the same film together.
Thanks for sharing this. It's a neat perspective, and I think the number of commenters talking about their childhoods and personal experiences with visual media is a reflection of how that community you dream of is perpetuated today. Different, certainly, but still there and still passionate.
I didn’t realize those kid monk movies were called Shaolin Popey, but the images unlocked a core memory. I loved the Shanghai animation movies, and I still own the Nezha film on VCD
I love your videos so much man, every time you bring a smile to my face and a tear to my eye. That special type of Asian melancholy just hits different. I love it so much.
This made me remember seeing a crowd gathered around a Shaolin Popey scene being filmed next to Jardine House in Hong Kong. Just uncovered a memory I didn't know I had.
I can relate to this so much, Saturday late nights would be when my family would catch whatever's shown on TV by our local broadcaster. And thankfully, what's repeatedly shown are gems from the 90s HK movies such as Once upon a Time in china (1-3), Who Am I (1998), Tai Chi Master (1993), 龍在江湖 (Andy Lau, 1998) I love the ass-kicking action back then but you can say these movies and Jet li gave me many found memories.
Surprisingly similar to my childhood film experience in rural Australia. We had to all go for a 2 hour drive to an actual cinema to watch a film. Usually weird and decades out of date (70s in the 80s). And then catching whatever weird British tv movies were in the free to air tv we could get reception for. And a large amount of Hong Kong film because day time watching was that, or Elvis Presley movies. Ahhhh. Fond days.
watching such a big screen when you're a child is such an underrated experience. i remember vividly my feeling when i watch the power ranger movie on cinema when i was a kid and i barely remember the movie
I also have memories to these movies, I'm Indonesian, when i was kid, it's aired on 10 pm to 1 am in some TV stations, it becomes the reason why i love mandarin and cantonese speaking movies so bad, especially Police Story, Project A, Once Upon a Time in China and other chinese 80s and 90s box office action flicks, and also Shaolin Popey (or some Indonesian called it "film film boboho") and Mr Vampire or Happy Ghost (or some called it "Kumpulan Film Vampir Cina") that aired in the morning holiday as kids show alongside Home Alone, and other cartoons.
Interesting video. At the same time in London (90s)we were seeing our 1st Chinese films such as Raise the Red Lantern and others by Zhang Yimou and Chen Chaige. later in the decade John Woo and other Hong Kong stuff. Funnily enough Jackie Chans Hong Kong movies got only slight distribution and we couldn't see till much later on DVD. Keep up the good work
As a kid in the 90's, it was primarily HK cinema. HK cinema of the 80's and 90's were my French New Wave. What was produced from independents of the time are considered some of the finest world cinema now. It was a great time for movies, personally.
Just unlocked a long forgotten memory about watching the Shaolin Popeye series as a kid. My god that's a trip down memory lane. Thank you so much for that.
For us here in Indonesia, Shaoling Popeye and everything in between is also a big part of our childhood home cinema through the TV. They never fail to bring laughters out of us.
Growing up in Chicago early 80s, I remember watching Sunday Afternoon Ninja theater on TV hosted by Sho Kosugi. He'd comment about some weapon or Ninja technique then the movie would start, usually a Hong Kong movie dubbed in English. Those were fun days! Later, I continued watching Hong Kong cinema in Cantonese with subtitles as I preferred the original language. But now hearing that Cantonese may become a dying dialect I'm sad.😔
I went to the cinema and watched movies as a kid growing up in the 90s as well. My dad has always been a movie fan, and probably the earliest movie I can recall going to the cinema for was Jurassic Park. However, it was Independence Day that blew my mind as a 12-year old. I think I saw that one 5 times in the cinema, because it was like it was made for me at that age. It's also quite a 90s movie, in the sense that it made you want to root for the Americans to save the world. That 90s optimism, plus being a child at that particular age, is quite a time.
I'm an 80s kid from Singapore and have to say I recognize all the movies you show here except one. Throughout the 90s, my favorite time was Friday & Saturday nights where there will be 2 (mostly HK with Chinese dubs) movies back to back, the later movie tend to be older reruns... We always watch it as a family, and I loved those movies. I have fell out of love with Asian cinema gradually since the late 90s and pivot to US/UK entertainment which I prefer. But occasionally, my friends and I will have a nostalgia movie night and re-watch some old Jackie Chan movies, so that was fun.
Quite Well Done; I'm a retired physicist & I find what's unique about a foriegn rarely can be deduce from my own I find it usually must be carefully communicated from that other culture or directly experienced within it. You quite-clearly communicated communicated it.
Human experience is human experience, whether or not we’ve seen all the movies you saw as a child, the warmth of human connection is definitely similar (if not entirely the same) around the world. I guess that’s why we have arts and culture, it’s the one that can always make us feel human. Thank you for your emphasis in humanity.
I'm an 80s kid from Indonesia and it's heartwarming that i remember 85% of the movies featured in this video. Unlike any girl of my age back then, i was CRAZYYY about Hongkong movies, i could watch them all day.
When I was 10 years old, my father took me to the cinema to watch Pride´s Deadly Fury 武林志 (1983). It was the very first martial arts movie I watched and I loved it. So I fell in love with those movies. Another one I saw in the cinema was Betrayal And Revenge 天國恩仇 (1986). The elegance of the wu shu performers still fascinates me. Later I started to watch Jackie Chan movies and I discovered all the other martial arts stars of Hong Kong like Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Jacky Wu Jing....When Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was released I started to look for more fantasy and swordplay movies like A Chinese Ghost Story, Duel To The Death, New Dragon Gate Inn, Butterfly And Sword, Tai Chi Master....it opened a whole new chamber of treasures. It was very exciting to discover all those movies. For some reason, modern movies don´t have the special magic that the old ones have.
omg... i remember watching my beloved in VHS or CD when i was kid in Indonesia. i remember cried watching it and sometime mom will sing the mama hao songs..
3:00 Tunnel war (and Mine War) was made by the August first studio, aka the Peoples Liberation Army's movie studio. Rewatching them recently I realised how much these movies work as instructional videos for Vietnam Style gurellia warfare (use tunnels to flank advancing forces, have bulkheads in tunnels to protect from gas attacks, build in traps and ambush spots in tunnels to prevent tunnel incursions, use trip wire mines counter mine sweepers, bury random metal stuff in the ground to confuse mine clearing efforts). I heard the reason why tunnel war is still replayed even in the 1990s was because it was the handful of movies that was approved for viewing during the cultural revolution. So it became a classic by default.
This one got me quite personally. I grew up watching a lot of animations as well and to this day, Mulan dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese is the best movie from my childhood. I remember every song by heart, and I still cry whenever I watch it! It seriously gets me every time
I can relate to being captivated by Mulan at the theatre although in my case I was in Canada and my dad took me. Later that day he got me a Mulan doll. I was already obsessed with the character
For several years of my childhood, I was a white American living in Japan. Also in the 90s. I had the benefit of a much broader range of available movies and stuff than you, but it was still much more limited than any of my peers today, because we were all expats, and by default anything outside of our gated community was in a language I couldn't comprehend. So it was really nice to have something to bridge that gap. My Neighbor Totoro lives in my heart with such fondness, it was a wonderful blend of magic and mundanity, ofba story I could connect with and help connect me to the Japanese culture around me. Fox only dubbed My Neighbor Totoro in English, nothing else of Studio Ghibli. Starting with I want to say Kiki's Delivery Service? English localization was a project taken on by Disney, and eventually they released their own dub of Totoro. I'm sure it's fine, objectively. I take a few issues with the translation choices made, but I know in my heart of hearts that's after the fact rationalization. Mostly I prefer the Fox dub because it's what I grew up with. That one will always be the one true English dub for me. Tldr I think I understand your feeling on the Cantonese dub of Mulan.
Back in elementary school, my Chinese teacher would play movies for us every so often in class. Most of the time it was Kung Fu Panda, because that was everybody's favorite, but I distinctly remember on two separate occasions seeing Havoc in Heaven (which I loved) and Shaolin Popey (which I didn't really understand). Makes me wonder if he grew up at a similar time and watched a lot of these movies as a kid.
As an oversea Chiense with origin from Hong Kong, growing up here in Northern Europe thru 1980. My old man used to rent pirate badly copy VHS of TVB TV serial or TV shows, with occasional movies. I remember in the 80's most of the movies was horror or action that my dad rented. But then he stopped watching movies and only watch TV drama in 90's. But in the 90's we bought movies thru cheap VCD with alot of Stephen Chow, so basically I am a lexicon of Stephen Chow movies as I watched every single one of his. My old man also like watching his stuff since Chow movies are "brainless entertainment"
Damn its crazy how 90s kids the world over can have similar experience. We didn't have school trips to theatre but on certain days they would round all the kids up in elementary school and we watch films in Auditorum or Gym. I saw a lot of old imax nature films, old disney movie like Fantasia. I definitely remember having a group of friends I sat with in the auditorium and on the gym floor. It should have been uncomfortable sitting on the cold gym floor. Classes would sometimes be delayed because teachers couldn't get thru the snow so they would herd us into the gym. We stay there watching movies until the State officially called it a snow day or until all the teachers arrived. A good film and great friends turned the experience from sour to sweet.
I usually watch movies or TV shows in my language, which is German, and sometimes but rarely I watch the original version, with subtitles if needed. The only exception are Anime, which I always watch in Japanese with either English or German subs. Well, even though Disney's Mulan is originally in English I wish I could watch it in Cantonese or Mandarin, but unfortunately there is no release in Europe that contains a Cantonese or Mandarin audio track.
In the US, we had the 3 Ninjas movies, which were about 3 brothers learning ninja techniques from their grandfather (I think he may have been Pat Morita, but I really don't remember). But the 3rd movie has Hulk Hogan in it lol.
There was a shopping store type thing and it had a small area with a big tv and some block rows for children to sit in, or parents often dropped my sister and i off there while shopping. It played disney movies and i think thats my earliest movie memories.
Wow! Although I am not Chinese, I grew up watching many of these exact same movies while living in Hong Kong through the early 90s. So many fond memories. Twelve Fairies (which I was under the title Twelve Animals) is awesome! You can find a DVD-R on the grey market fairly easily. Thanks for uploading another wonderful video.
Toronto, Canada had three cinemas playing HK films in the 90s (Far East, Golden Harvest, Pearl.) Storm Riders even played at Cineplex Odeon First Markham Place. All would be shuttered by the next decade.
I'm several years older than you and grew up in Taiwan, but share very similar experiences. Thank goodness we were light on the black and white propaganda films (can't remember any actually), but movies on big school auditorium and Sunday-night HK flicks on TV totally ring a bell. I'm familiar with about half each of a lot of those 90s HK movies - because they were always on some time between dinner and when we had to leave my grandparents' place to go home. Despite not seeing them from end to end, the actors/scenes/settings in those movies bring back vivid happy memories being surrounded by cousins imitating what was on screen, and uncles/aunts voicing their opinions. Thanks for making this video.
True. Even for a guy who hates people generally, the movie that stays with me is the one I saw at cinema and watch with all those strangers. The atmosphere, the laugh or terror he he.
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Hey Yang Zhang, could you please tell me what music you use on the outro? I see it as the channels soundtrack and I love it.
kind of weird you didnt make an essay about "The Raid" franchise since they raised the bar for R-rated action movies years ago and people are still being mesmerized buy those lame jon wick sequels in wich they manage to turn talents like Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian and Scott Adkins into jokes
Hey, I have been thinking about this video a lot lately. Do you ever do meet and greet with fans and viewers?
I love how the algorithm actually makes you make super personal videos
the algorithm is magical when it actually works.
I love that for you
"My friends were sweeter than any imported chocolates"
Gosh, I was not expecting to end up crying on a video about what people watched growing up but that one line made me think of all my best friends who are no longer alive and just made me so sad at losing them but happy at all the sudden rush of memories that simple line opened up.
childhood friendship is purest of all, especially for us little boys, we probe each other's hobbies, interests and inclinations tantatively, if something click, friendship formed almost in a instant. Such magical connection is almost complete disconnected from adult world and daily mundanes, sort like a little paradise suddenly appears from this unexpected connection, full of possibilities even if you don't know what they might contain, you just want to explore, share and add to it. it gives you courage, confidence and some form of identity, I don't want to romantisize my selective memory, but it feels devine and ritual like when I remember about it.
What a heartfelt video. I was born on the opposite side of the world (Brooklyn 82) and don't recognize 90% of the movies, yet the nostalgia I felt, reminiscing about growing up in the 90's, and the idea of the future can only get better. Thank you.
I feel the same way and also, same 😂(The city,83)
Even for me, a millennial that grew up just across the strait in Taiwan, I don't know most of the films. Mulan is the only one that I've watched from start to finish, and I've seen snippets of two others when they were on TV.
so I wasn't the only one with the naive thought that the future can only get better lol, man I wish I had even the tiniest bit of that simple hope in me nowadays
Well, turns out it's not actually better now, lol..
Brooklyn, born in 84 - first Bay Ridge then Williamsburg
My parents always rented things for us, likely because they were desperately homesick. I remember the Canto dubs of a lot of Disney and anime, HK pop music (and the karaoke videos that went with them), TVB series and plenty of HK movies. We lived hand to mouth but my parents didn’t have any vices, like smoking or gambling, so considering it was before the internet and we didn’t live in NYC Chinatown, my access to Cantonese language popular media was really high.
My dad was 💯 a Stephen Chow fan and he will still randomly quote them to me. Growing up the way I did, close to my language and culture because my parents could not bear to watch their children become American, is a unique privilege. As I’ve gotten older, I realise that it’s not something that every family has access to, if you grew up without access to a thriving Chinese diasporic community
I've always heard that Mulan (1998) was heavily criticized in China back then for being inaccurate to the source material. But clearly, children didn't care as long as they're entertained.
You miss the nationalism element as Chinese government media hated the fact that white capitalists were monetizing our cultural legacy and doing it in such a bastardized way.
No idea what you’re talking about since Mulan (1998) appears to be one of the most popular Disney movies ever in China. I hear the complete opposite- that is was faithful (as far as movies can be) go the story of Mulan.
It’s the live action remake that appears to not have been faithful to the story
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson The animated film reportedly flopped in China. Wikipedia says "Chinese people also complained about Mulan's depiction as too foreign-looking and the story as too different from the myths" based on two articles from the late 90s.
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Also, many fans theorized that the live-action remake was made different from the "original" in order to appeal more to Chinese audiences. It's been confirmed that Mushu's absence is due to his negative reception in China. There've been many adaptations of the source material in that country, and none resemble the 1998 Disney version, as far as I know.
I remember you touching on the fact that you saw Mulan as a kid with your school and I'm happy that you got to expand a bit more on that experience
I'm from Melbourne, Australia and I remember in the 90's as a 13 year old kid at the video store in 1994 seeing the international section of movies, my favorite were the Hong Kong action movies or Martial Art movies, I was blown away with movies such as John Woo's The Killer, Hard Boiled or any of his movies as he has an artistic eye, I also borrowed a lot of Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat movies back then and now I own them in my movie collection on physical media like DVD and Blu-ray, as I grew older I appreciate other genres from China and all over Asia, now I own thousands in my movie collection even though I don't speak their language I only speak English but I watch them in their original language with English Subtitles as the actors performances come more authentic compared to badly dubbed English versions.
One of the reasons I love watching and commenting on AC's videos is because a lot of his experiences are a little or extremely similar to my own. I remember watching very old movies with my family, choosing video tapes, buying DVDs, or picking a TV channel that had a movie I wanted to watch. Those were amazing times, and someday, I hope I get to share some of my personal experiences, because I love cinema. A lot.
I like how Bisexual Legend Li Shang is just his name now.
Growing up in Taiwan in the 90s, I mostly watched cartoon network, disney movies and anime like Doraemon, Pokemon, detective conan, Chuuka Ichiban!, Akazukin Chacha, Getter Robo Armageddon, Getter Robo Armageddon, Slayers, Future GPX Cyber Formula. I did watch some chinese shows like the hong kong version of 笑傲江湖 or the 80s 西遊記 but mostly only because my father watched them.
I want to ask, why do you romanize your surname with Hanyu Pinyin? I know it’s been officially adopted since 2009 in Taiwan, but aren’t personal names usually romanized with the Wade-Giles system? For example, Xie would be Hsieh in Wade-Giles.
This makes me think back to my earliest memory in a movie theater: watching The Lion King at 5 years old. I will never forget the stampede/death of Mufasa scene. It’s one of those memories that could only be created at that one place-in-time for me. The Disney Renaissance was special.
I do have the same communal memory, when I was young my family went to see a local premiere of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and we could not sit together, I was for the first time, off by my self sitting next to a boy about my age I didn't know, he wasn't sitting with his family either, but I had popcorn and he had pop so we shared, and we were riveted to the screen, hopping up and down in our seats, and in one of the very few times this has happened, when the film ended, the audience stood up and all applauded at once, it's one of the great memories of my life and why I also studied film and continue to be intrigued by it to this day, I am grateful for having access to so many modern films from all over the world that I can watch on streaming.
I do remember the friends i watched movies with as well: my poor mother watching Jurassic Park with me for the 500th time, laughing with friends about some jokes in Austin Powers, rewinding it back and laughing again, watching Hot Shots 2 while my father and his friend are talking about something and then they burst out laughing about a joke i didnt got as a kid, sitting with my big teenage love in the theaters in a group and catching her looking at me and smiling... , chilling with my former roommate and watching Lord of the rings (both trying not to cry at the end) .... damn. its beautiful.
Chinese-Indonesian here. I am a fan of the Shaolin Popey series. I remember Jimmy Lin, a Taiwanese actor/singer, sang the ost. I often listened to the songs Xin Yun and Yong Bu Hui Tou, which always brought back my memories of the 90s. Another movie from the same era, played by Shaolin Popey's cast (Jimmy Lin and Boboho), is Grandpa's Love. The film was depressing as f and dealt with topics like dying, suicide, etc. It traumatized me to this day, almost 30 years later. At the time, I assumed it was a sequel to Shaolin Popey, and I thought to myself, what a weird sequel. Shaolin Popey is a non-sensical slapstick influenced by Stephen Chow's humor with a bit of a feel-good romance movie, but Grandpa's Love is about how two orphaned boys deal with grief after their parents die in a plane crash. The elder, despite trying to cope with his depression over the loss and being treated harshly by his absentee grandpa, who constantly blames him for almost everything and provides no emotional support during the period, still tries to look after the younger brother. At the movie's end, the grandpa acknowledges his mistake when he finds the big brother died after accidentally falling to a cliff. Grandpa's Love ruined Shaolin Popey for me because I cannot re-watch the latter without reminding myself about the former.
My Beloved was a family favorite. I go back and watch it again from time to time for nostalgia and a good cry.
Not from China, didn't watch any of the movies you are talking about, yet you made me feel nostalgic.... thanks.
The Cantonese dub for Mulan was FIRE!!!!!!!
The 90's film industry from both East and West were truly something else. Going up in the 90s myself, a lot of these films are such a blast from the past. I grew up watching a lot of Hong Kong films, my parents use to be huge movie buffs in 90s.
Funny thing, Shakespeare was actually famous for writing plays for the masses. The reason it's considered high culture today is because the language is from 1500.
As a Hmong kid most of my childhood movies were Hmong dubbed. Not all of them were dubbed well but I loved them all. Theres even one of the 12 Faries.
I'm a Chinese 80s kid (1983). My dad got to go to university in Sweden. So, me and my mother emigrated to Sweden in 1989. I never got to grow up in China in the 90s. Even though every vacation and the savings went to visiting China as often as we could. It was hard enough trying to fit in as the only Asian kid on the block and I didn't really get in touch with my Chinese roots until the late 2000s. It's interesting getting this insight from you. I think I've watched most of the things you showed at a later age.
My first Disney movie was Aladdin in 1992 with Swedish dub. I didn't even know Swedish that well at the time and it's still my favourite Disney movie.
Man I’m a part of the early 00后 and Prince Nezha from Shanghai animation studio was my favourite animation as a kid. I even got a hula hoop and those dancing ribbon toy that they sell at the side of the street to imitate his golden hoop and red ribbon! I think Lotus Lantern was some of the last good animation to come out of the studio before the dark ages of Chinese animation in the 2010’s. But now I think Chinese animation is making a comeback with shows like Yao Chinese Folktales, Link Click, Under One Person and movies like the Legend of Hei, Nezha (2020ish) and Chang An. It’d be amazing if this channel could cover the rise and fall and (hopefully) rise again of Chinese animation!!
Babe wake up, AccentedCinema uploaded a new video.
ALWAYS A GREAT day when Accented uploads❤
每次都能從異聲影院的影片裡感受到溫度欸，總是看得很開心與感動，是我最喜歡的影評人/內容創作者
As a little kid, I saw the Disney “Aladdin” in theaters and the images, feelings, and the reaction of the audience has stayed with me. Many other movies have informed my personal tastes, but that first experience was seminal in a way. At the end of the “Friend Like Me” song, the audience cheered, and I did too.
Awww so nice!!
Noone else makes me feel like I've lived the experience of another quite like you do in these videos. Thank you so much
One of my earliest memories of going to the cinema was for a school trip back in Primary School. Even though I lived somewhere that was only a short drive from an Omniplex, our class was taking a trip to the only IMAX cinema in the country: Cineworld Dublin. We were going to see Fantasia 2000 for our art class, to get a cultural afternoon of classical music and animation.
I recall going through a UV hallway, watching the film on a giant screen, and getting a fright during the Firebird Suite segment (When the bird awakens and that sting occurs). The only other noteworthy thing was getting a trailer for CyberWorld; a lost anthology film that was a showcase for CGI.
Weird how I can remember this, and yet none of the algebra or long division I had to learn for maths. Goes to show the impact of cinema, how watching something in a theatre with a blaring sound system and gigantic screen can't compare to watching something on your own at home.
I really love this, as a lot of my Chinese-American childhood was full of kung fu movies. I haven't heard anyone talk about the Shaolin Popey movies before this video so that was a real great blast from my past. Thanks for sharing this
Even your sponsor sections are good, I never skip them as I do with all other channels’ videos I watch.
As an italian, seeing footage of Nuovo Cinema Paradiso in the beginning and at the end of the video gives me joy. Always a great video.
Man, I grew up on Shanghai animation film studio stuff, too. Two big ones that influenced me as a kid were Black Cat Detective and the Calabash Brothers, besides the other well known ones. And I know I grew up on the stories of Afanti, though I don't know if they started with the film Shangai animation did.
Thank you. This video brought me back in the olden days.
Far East Theatre was special for the community. It gave us weekend all day matinees (triple headers, never cleared the seats,) notorious with ghost sightings, and 3-cat midnight showings. Sad to see its demise.
I'm from Malaysia and I recognize most of the movies featured in this video. TV stations back then can't stop showing those movies in the 90s and early 2000s.
I've seen Disney's Mulan plenty of times, but I don't think it ever gave me goosebumps like your description of seeing it for the first time did. Your memories transported me. The part where she climbs up the pole really is great.
The clips from Shanghai Animation movies are beautiful! I wonder if I can find some of them online to watch for myself...
Imagine the excitement of suddenly going from watching black and white movies that came out in your parents childhood to watching Disney's Mulan, what a amazing day that mush have been for everyone. Also, Hollywood somehow manged to do this a second time with Kung Fu Panda's success
Probably the most respectful and heartfelt comment section I’ve seen.
lmao the second you mentioned liking the Canto dub of Mulan I instantly searched who the VA was because I recognized that voice immediately. Disney is really good at their casting choices. I have vivid memories of my parents recording the Canto dub of various Disney films on VHS like Snow White and Cinderella. Just the whole process of having to write down the times of when the movie would play on the TVB channel, knowing when to press "Record", and then rewinding it later to watch. Now they take on a nostalgic feel because while the English obviously matches well, to me the Canto dub is where my memories are. Also omg I had no idea Coco Lee did the dub for the Taiwanese Mulan. Rest in peace Coco..😞 her death was in the HK newspapers and my parents were talking about her.
You are a wonderful storyteller. Commenting halfway through the video as your recount of the Mulan theatre experience really moved me.
Some friends and I saw The Force Awakens on opening night. In our small mountain town, the line snaked back along the block: don't think I've ever seen it that long. The movie may have been a bit of a disappointment, but the memories are some of my favorites because of how much we all were looking forward to it, and for all the little moments with the people around us. My friends' little brother shoved a whole pizza box up the front of his hoodie to see if he could get away with sneaking it in (if I remember right, he did). Somebody else snuck in a Death Star beach ball: when we were all seated, the crowd spiked it back and forth all across the room. There was universal "aww" of disappointment as the usher took it away. Then pure excitement as the lights went down. Good time.
I don't recall many memories from my childhood, but I do remember the feeling of watching a good movie with my classmates from the crappy Promethean projector in our classroom. In elementary school, the teachers would sometimes play a random movie for us. We'd have no idea what to expect; all we knew was the movie's name. I think I recall kids asking the teacher what the movie was about, & the teacher would simply say, "You'll see." It felt like everyone was being united for a moment just to be captivated by the same film together.
The Rocketeer was one of those films they showed my class. I loved that film as a kid. I was shocked when I learned that the movie wasn't successful.
Thanks for sharing this. It's a neat perspective, and I think the number of commenters talking about their childhoods and personal experiences with visual media is a reflection of how that community you dream of is perpetuated today. Different, certainly, but still there and still passionate.
I didn’t realize those kid monk movies were called Shaolin Popey, but the images unlocked a core memory. I loved the Shanghai animation movies, and I still own the Nezha film on VCD
I love your videos so much man, every time you bring a smile to my face and a tear to my eye. That special type of Asian melancholy just hits different. I love it so much.
Your love of film is so deep I always enjoy your videos
This made me remember seeing a crowd gathered around a Shaolin Popey scene being filmed next to Jardine House in Hong Kong. Just uncovered a memory I didn't know I had.
I can relate to this so much, Saturday late nights would be when my family would catch whatever's shown on TV by our local broadcaster. And thankfully, what's repeatedly shown are gems from the 90s HK movies such as Once upon a Time in china (1-3), Who Am I (1998), Tai Chi Master (1993), 龍在江湖 (Andy Lau, 1998)
I love the ass-kicking action back then but you can say these movies and Jet li gave me many found memories.
Surprisingly similar to my childhood film experience in rural Australia. We had to all go for a 2 hour drive to an actual cinema to watch a film. Usually weird and decades out of date (70s in the 80s). And then catching whatever weird British tv movies were in the free to air tv we could get reception for. And a large amount of Hong Kong film because day time watching was that, or Elvis Presley movies.
Ahhhh. Fond days.
你和我有一样的童年哈哈，好怀念小时候看港片的感觉
watching such a big screen when you're a child is such an underrated experience. i remember vividly my feeling when i watch the power ranger movie on cinema when i was a kid and i barely remember the movie
This was a really cozy and beautiful video
I also have memories to these movies, I'm Indonesian, when i was kid, it's aired on 10 pm to 1 am in some TV stations, it becomes the reason why i love mandarin and cantonese speaking movies so bad, especially Police Story, Project A, Once Upon a Time in China and other chinese 80s and 90s box office action flicks, and also Shaolin Popey (or some Indonesian called it "film film boboho") and Mr Vampire or Happy Ghost (or some called it "Kumpulan Film Vampir Cina") that aired in the morning holiday as kids show alongside Home Alone, and other cartoons.
Interesting video. At the same time in London (90s)we were seeing our 1st Chinese films such as Raise the Red Lantern and others by Zhang Yimou and Chen Chaige. later in the decade John Woo and other Hong Kong stuff. Funnily enough Jackie Chans Hong Kong movies got only slight distribution and we couldn't see till much later on DVD. Keep up the good work
As a kid in the 90's, it was primarily HK cinema. HK cinema of the 80's and 90's were my French New Wave. What was produced from independents of the time are considered some of the finest world cinema now. It was a great time for movies, personally.
love to hear personal accounts of peoples relationships to their favorite medium. thanks for uploading! love your content
One of the best videos you made, thank you
does anyone else remember old master q/lao fu zi? it was such a large part of my childhood but it seems like everyone i talk to barely knows of it
I grew up watching some of these films you featured. Thank you for the video. Brings back a lot of memories.
Just unlocked a long forgotten memory about watching the Shaolin Popeye series as a kid. My god that's a trip down memory lane. Thank you so much for that.
"My friends was sweeter then any imported chocolates" never so instantly have I had tears of wholesomeness in my eyes
7:26 The ad aged like fine wine, since now there is the Great Firewall
I get a little bit emotional with the Mulan bit. Also.. It nevers stops to amaze me how talented Jackie Chan is
For us here in Indonesia, Shaoling Popeye and everything in between is also a big part of our childhood home cinema through the TV. They never fail to bring laughters out of us.
So now we have the backstory. Where is the villain arc?
You’re opening story is so sweet.
Growing up in Chicago early 80s, I remember watching Sunday Afternoon Ninja theater on TV hosted by Sho Kosugi. He'd comment about some weapon or Ninja technique then the movie would start, usually a Hong Kong movie dubbed in English. Those were fun days! Later, I continued watching Hong Kong cinema in Cantonese with subtitles as I preferred the original language. But now hearing that Cantonese may become a dying dialect I'm sad.😔
Didn´t expect going into this video that well done dubing will be shared experience!
incredible heartfelt video! i loved this one and how personal it was. thank you for sharing!!
I went to the cinema and watched movies as a kid growing up in the 90s as well. My dad has always been a movie fan, and probably the earliest movie I can recall going to the cinema for was Jurassic Park. However, it was Independence Day that blew my mind as a 12-year old. I think I saw that one 5 times in the cinema, because it was like it was made for me at that age.
It's also quite a 90s movie, in the sense that it made you want to root for the Americans to save the world. That 90s optimism, plus being a child at that particular age, is quite a time.
I'm an 80s kid from Singapore and have to say I recognize all the movies you show here except one. Throughout the 90s, my favorite time was Friday & Saturday nights where there will be 2 (mostly HK with Chinese dubs) movies back to back, the later movie tend to be older reruns... We always watch it as a family, and I loved those movies.
I have fell out of love with Asian cinema gradually since the late 90s and pivot to US/UK entertainment which I prefer. But occasionally, my friends and I will have a nostalgia movie night and re-watch some old Jackie Chan movies, so that was fun.
Quite Well Done;
I'm a retired physicist & I find what's unique about a foriegn rarely can be deduce from my own
I find it usually must be carefully communicated from that other culture or directly experienced within it.
You quite-clearly communicated communicated it.
Human experience is human experience, whether or not we’ve seen all the movies you saw as a child, the warmth of human connection is definitely similar (if not entirely the same) around the world. I guess that’s why we have arts and culture, it’s the one that can always make us feel human. Thank you for your emphasis in humanity.
A beautiful and informative video. Thank you from the UK
Great story, Yang! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I'm an 80s kid from Indonesia and it's heartwarming that i remember 85% of the movies featured in this video. Unlike any girl of my age back then, i was CRAZYYY about Hongkong movies, i could watch them all day.
Really enjoyed this 💛
When I was 10 years old, my father took me to the cinema to watch Pride´s Deadly Fury 武林志 (1983). It was the very first martial arts movie I watched and I loved it. So I fell in love with those movies. Another one I saw in the cinema was Betrayal And Revenge 天國恩仇 (1986). The elegance of the wu shu performers still fascinates me. Later I started to watch Jackie Chan movies and I discovered all the other martial arts stars of Hong Kong like Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Jacky Wu Jing....When Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was released I started to look for more fantasy and swordplay movies like A Chinese Ghost Story, Duel To The Death, New Dragon Gate Inn, Butterfly And Sword, Tai Chi Master....it opened a whole new chamber of treasures. It was very exciting to discover all those movies. For some reason, modern movies don´t have the special magic that the old ones have.
omg... i remember watching my beloved in VHS or CD when i was kid in Indonesia. i remember cried watching it and sometime mom will sing the mama hao songs..
3:00 Tunnel war (and Mine War) was made by the August first studio, aka the Peoples Liberation Army's movie studio. Rewatching them recently I realised how much these movies work as instructional videos for Vietnam Style gurellia warfare (use tunnels to flank advancing forces, have bulkheads in tunnels to protect from gas attacks, build in traps and ambush spots in tunnels to prevent tunnel incursions, use trip wire mines counter mine sweepers, bury random metal stuff in the ground to confuse mine clearing efforts).
I heard the reason why tunnel war is still replayed even in the 1990s was because it was the handful of movies that was approved for viewing during the cultural revolution. So it became a classic by default.
I too actually remember seeing that it did in fact say “instructive video” in parenthesis （科教片） next to the title in the very beginning of both films.
10:28, The Shaolin Popey series was known as "Film Boboho" in Indonesia, definitely childhood movies for millions of Indonesian (90's and 2000's kids)
This one got me quite personally. I grew up watching a lot of animations as well and to this day, Mulan dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese is the best movie from my childhood. I remember every song by heart, and I still cry whenever I watch it! It seriously gets me every time
I can relate to being captivated by Mulan at the theatre although in my case I was in Canada and my dad took me. Later that day he got me a Mulan doll. I was already obsessed with the character
I like the Aces Goes Places series as well. They were a big part of our childhood.
For several years of my childhood, I was a white American living in Japan. Also in the 90s. I had the benefit of a much broader range of available movies and stuff than you, but it was still much more limited than any of my peers today, because we were all expats, and by default anything outside of our gated community was in a language I couldn't comprehend.
So it was really nice to have something to bridge that gap. My Neighbor Totoro lives in my heart with such fondness, it was a wonderful blend of magic and mundanity, ofba story I could connect with and help connect me to the Japanese culture around me.
Fox only dubbed My Neighbor Totoro in English, nothing else of Studio Ghibli. Starting with I want to say Kiki's Delivery Service? English localization was a project taken on by Disney, and eventually they released their own dub of Totoro.
I'm sure it's fine, objectively. I take a few issues with the translation choices made, but I know in my heart of hearts that's after the fact rationalization. Mostly I prefer the Fox dub because it's what I grew up with. That one will always be the one true English dub for me.
Tldr I think I understand your feeling on the Cantonese dub of Mulan.
Back in elementary school, my Chinese teacher would play movies for us every so often in class. Most of the time it was Kung Fu Panda, because that was everybody's favorite, but I distinctly remember on two separate occasions seeing Havoc in Heaven (which I loved) and Shaolin Popey (which I didn't really understand). Makes me wonder if he grew up at a similar time and watched a lot of these movies as a kid.
hmmm.... fanfiction, from accented cinema? I'm intrigued
What a wonderful video! Thank you!
As an oversea Chiense with origin from Hong Kong, growing up here in Northern Europe thru 1980. My old man used to rent pirate badly copy VHS of TVB TV serial or TV shows, with occasional movies. I remember in the 80's most of the movies was horror or action that my dad rented. But then he stopped watching movies and only watch TV drama in 90's. But in the 90's we bought movies thru cheap VCD with alot of Stephen Chow, so basically I am a lexicon of Stephen Chow movies as I watched every single one of his. My old man also like watching his stuff since Chow movies are "brainless entertainment"
I'm so pleased I stumbled onto this channel and subscribed.
Damn its crazy how 90s kids the world over can have similar experience. We didn't have school trips to theatre but on certain days they would round all the kids up in elementary school and we watch films in Auditorum or Gym. I saw a lot of old imax nature films, old disney movie like Fantasia. I definitely remember having a group of friends I sat with in the auditorium and on the gym floor. It should have been uncomfortable sitting on the cold gym floor. Classes would sometimes be delayed because teachers couldn't get thru the snow so they would herd us into the gym. We stay there watching movies until the State officially called it a snow day or until all the teachers arrived. A good film and great friends turned the experience from sour to sweet.
7:07 And then everybody stood up and clapped.
No, literally, they were cheering because they loved the movie so much, it was great.
wow, as an adult that sun wukong animation style is absolutely stunning!
I usually watch movies or TV shows in my language, which is German, and sometimes but rarely I watch the original version, with subtitles if needed. The only exception are Anime, which I always watch in Japanese with either English or German subs. Well, even though Disney's Mulan is originally in English I wish I could watch it in Cantonese or Mandarin, but unfortunately there is no release in Europe that contains a Cantonese or Mandarin audio track.
In the US, we had the 3 Ninjas movies, which were about 3 brothers learning ninja techniques from their grandfather (I think he may have been Pat Morita, but I really don't remember). But the 3rd movie has Hulk Hogan in it lol.
There was a shopping store type thing and it had a small area with a big tv and some block rows for children to sit in, or parents often dropped my sister and i off there while shopping. It played disney movies and i think thats my earliest movie memories.
Wow! Although I am not Chinese, I grew up watching many of these exact same movies while living in Hong Kong through the early 90s. So many fond memories. Twelve Fairies (which I was under the title Twelve Animals) is awesome! You can find a DVD-R on the grey market fairly easily. Thanks for uploading another wonderful video.
Toronto, Canada had three cinemas playing HK films in the 90s (Far East, Golden Harvest, Pearl.) Storm Riders even played at Cineplex Odeon First Markham Place. All would be shuttered by the next decade.
I'm several years older than you and grew up in Taiwan, but share very similar experiences. Thank goodness we were light on the black and white propaganda films (can't remember any actually), but movies on big school auditorium and Sunday-night HK flicks on TV totally ring a bell. I'm familiar with about half each of a lot of those 90s HK movies - because they were always on some time between dinner and when we had to leave my grandparents' place to go home. Despite not seeing them from end to end, the actors/scenes/settings in those movies bring back vivid happy memories being surrounded by cousins imitating what was on screen, and uncles/aunts voicing their opinions. Thanks for making this video.
True. Even for a guy who hates people generally, the movie that stays with me is the one I saw at cinema and watch with all those strangers.
The atmosphere, the laugh or terror he he.