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...Asian moviemaking world whose output is prodigious by Hollywood standards but who is seldom seen in the U.S. (Shashi did play opposite Hayley Mills in Pretty Polly.) For the most part, that is just as well. No other region of the world produces such a concoction of Kung Fu, scifi, porn, soapers, chasers and period pieces with such uneven degrees of tackiness and brilliance. From India to Japan, the film studios of Asia churn out more than 1,200 pictures a year, the work of moguls like Hong Kong's Run Run Shaw (see box) and one-shot entrepreneurs...
...from Hong Kong to Jakarta, plus thousands more in Chinatowns around the world. Shaw Brothers grind out 40 titles a year (newest crop: Black Magic, Killer Clans, Five Shaolin Masters)−a sort of column A, column B menu of Oriental weepers with suicidal beauties, or Eastern Westerns featuring Kung Fu Mandarins...
...more, Go is to Japan what baseball is to America: a national pastime. Japanese newspapers sponsor millions in prize money for Go each year. Children train from infancy to become Go masters. The top Go player in the world--who holds the same rank that Bruce Lee held in "kung fu"--rakes in a six-figure salary. In Japan, Go is where the money...
...There is no intermission, evidently a precaution against losing the entire audience at half tune," wrote New York Post Critic Douglas Watt. Said Clive Barnes of the New York Times: "At times you could imagine yourself watching a parody called Kung Fu Comes to Athens." Enough, said the show's producers, and closed the doors after one performance...
...ever worked with because there is no employment for Asian actors. They were waiting tables, being stenographers and working in advertising agencies. I found most of them in San Francisco and Los Angeles because that's where they get movie work playing Hirohito and coolies and acting in Kung-Fu movies, Hawaii Five-O and all that junk...